Table 2.

Whole-brain search for regions showing activity within the Oe–Oc contrast that correlated with empathic concern and/or perspective taking

Region	L/R	Peak voxel coordinates	t-scores
Positive correlation with empathic concern
Middle temporal pole	R	33, 3, −39	2.98
Dorsal anterior cingulate	L	−9, 12, 21	2.84
Middle temporal cortex	L	−45, −21, −18	2.72
Middle temporal cortex	L	−48, −3, −30	2.66
Ventral anterior cingulate	L	−12, 30, −9	2.16
Ventral anterior cingulate/medial  frontal cortex	R	−3, 33, −12	1.93
Negative correlation with empathic concern
Supplementary motor area	L	−9, −12, 72	3.25
Superior frontal cortex	L	−15, 21, 66	2.78
Orbitofrontal cortex	L	−21, 57, 6	2.70
Calcarine	R	21, −102, 6	2.64
Parahippocampal gyrus	L	−3, −6, −21	2.60
Positive correlation with perspective taking	No regions reached threshold
Negative correlation with perspective taking
Parahippocampal gyrus	R	15, −15, −30	3.99
Parahippocampal gyrus	L	−18, 0, −27	3.63
Cerebellum	R	6, −21, −48	3.42
Caudate	L	0, 3, −15	3.42
Vermis	L	−6, −45, −30	3.31
Fusiform	R	27, −33, −18	3.22
Parahippocampal gyrus	R	36, −42, −6	3.19
Fusiform	L	−27, −48, −12	3.18

Bolded regions small volume corrected, p < 0.05, for 10 mm sphere around the following coordinates: Ventral ACC coordinates: x = 3, y = 23, z = −8. All other activations p < 0.001, uncorrected for whole-brain volume.