Midbrain (mesencephalon)

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What it does

Where it sits

Functional territories & networks

Neural correlates of record

The decoded cognitive profile of record for this part — the behaviour, action and thought terms its studies are about, weighted against the corpus baseline (top 18 by association weight). Click any term to project its whole-brain correlate map in 3D.

reward0.018815
pain0.016446
midbrain0.012942
fear0.008220
brainstem0.007493
threat0.007308
nucleus0.006660
striatum0.006167
response0.006024
amygdala0.005869
periaqueductal0.005687
responses0.005333
anticipation0.005216
dopaminergic0.005105
learning0.004965
thalamus0.004946
ventral0.004923
ventral striatum0.004321

Ranked by Neurosynth v7 association weight. All 2,541 decoded terms in the atlas are searchable from the 3D brain dropdown.