Table 1.

Neural activity in the Emotion Inference task when subjects imagine what the character with a False Belief would feel if he/she had more knowledge as compared to the same emotion inference question for the True Belief Character

Brain region	Brodmann's area	MNI co-ordinates x, y, z	t-statistic	Volume (voxels)
EI : FB > EI : TB
L. Inferior frontal gyrus	44, 45	−44, 18, 22	4.5	15
L. Inferior frontal sulcus	46	−38, 32, 22	4.0	194
B. Anterior cingulate cortex (arPFC)	32	−4, 40, 16	4.1	21
B. Supplementary motor area (prPFC)	6	−10, 8, 56	5.8	57
L. Superior temporal sulcus	37	−50, −68, 14	5.2	104
L. Middle temporal gyrus—middle portion	21	−60, −46, −2	5.5	211
L. Inferior temporal gyrus (Temporal pole)	21	−48, 24, −20	3.9	28
L. Lingual—fusiform gyrus	37, 18, 19	−22, −68, −4	8.8	1548
L. Thalamus extending to pallidum		−12, −10, 0	5.3	222
L. Thalamus—pulvinar region		−22, −28, −2	5.2	143
L. Ventral putamen		−20, 6, −10	4.6	11
R. Middle temporal gyrus—middle portion	21	62, −42, −4	4.5	90
R. Thalamus extending to pallidum		14, −2, 10	5.9	321
R. Thalamus—pulvinar region		10, −30, 2	4.2	18
R. Lingual—fusiform gyrus	37, 19	22, −64, 6	7.3	1548
R. Inferior frontal gyrus	44, 45	46, 24, 22	3.5*
R. Postcentral gyrus (SC I)	3	46, −16, 42	3.0*

L = Left, R = Right, B = Bilateral.

*Significant at P < 0.005.