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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 13.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Res. 2009 Oct 22;1308:100–113. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.10.006

Table 4.

Brain regions in which greater activity for the Social Change > No Change correlated with Cognitive and Affective Empathy.

Social Change – No Change Social R/L BA MNI Coordinates
X, Y, Z
T value Cluster Size
Social Change vs. No Change
Correlated with Cognitive Empathy
Frontal Cortex:
Inferior Frontal Gyrus – Opercularis L 44 -50, 10, 12 4.2 16
Anterior Insula L 48 -38, 2, 8 5.6 50
Medial Orbital Frontal Cortex (MOFC) R 11 4, 24, -24 5.9 199
Medial Orbital Frontal Cortex (MOFC) L 11 -6, -54, -14 5.2 77
Medial Orbital Frontal Cortex (MOFC) L 11 -10, 32, -16 4.4 43
Middle Frontal Gyrus (DLPFC) L 6 -18, 18, 42 4.8 95
Supplementary Motor Area R 6 14, -54, 4 5.3 68
Temporal Cortex
Superior Temporal Sulcus R 21,22 52, -28, 0 5.2 25 #
Middle Temporal Gyrus R 37 50, -64, 0 4.2 13
Middle Temporal Gyrus R 37 42, -54, 4 5.4 49
Middle Temporal Gyrus L 37 -44, -56, 0 7.7 178*
Hippocampus L -28, -40, 4 5.8 457
Parietal & Occipital Cortices
Supramarginal Gyrus (Somatosensory Related Cortex (SRC)) L 40 -44, -28, 28 5.9 89
Postcentral Gyrus (SCI) L 3 -20, -30, 48 5.5 87
Postcentral Gyrus (SCI) L 3 -20, -40, 54 4.4 21
Middle Cingulate Gyrus R 23 16, -30, 40 4.5 23
Subcortical & Cerebellar
Thalamus R 20, -26, 8 5.7 75
Social Change vs. No Change
Correlated with Affective Empathy
Precentral Gyrus R 6,44 46, 2, 28 5.1 24
Middle Frontal Gyrus L 9, 46 -24, 56, 34 4.7 28
Superior Parietal Lobe – Intraparietal Sulcus L 7 -16, -70, 48 7.5 51
*

Peak activation is significant when corrected for multiple comparisons (FWE, p<.05) within the region of interest using the Small Volume Correction (SVC) tool in SPM

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Peak activation is significant when corrected for multiple comparisons with False Discovery Rate, p<.05 within the region of interest using the Small Volume Correction (SVC) tool in SPM