“…Based on these findings, we speculate that the vACC activity observed here during social exclusion may reflect negative emotion induced by social exclusion relative to fair play. In addition, we found activation in the hippocampi, and left middle temporal gyrus, both areas implicated in aspects of emotional experience (Blood et al, 1999; Blair et al, 2007; Britton et al, 2006; Davis et al, 2008; Farrow et al, 2001, 2005; Garrett & Maddock, 2006; Gosselin et al, 2006; Maddock, 1999; Small et al, 2001; Winston et al, 2002; Wood et al, 2005; Zahn et al, 2009). Three regions that showed activation in social exclusion, vACC, bilateral hippocampus, and retrosplenial cortex, are functionally connected and are considered a medial temporal subnetwork of the default mode network (Andrews-Hanna et al, 2010; Buckner et al, 2008).…”