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Published in final edited form as: Psychol Bull. 2007 May;133(3):535–556. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.133.3.535

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Brain regions implicated in social cognition and executive function. Panel a shows medial surface of the right hemisphere depicting the limbic lobe, laterobasal-cortical amygdala, orbital-medial frontal cortex, and hippocampus. The laterobasal-cortical amygdala and hippocampus are projected on the surface of the parahippocampal gyrus. Panel b shows lateral surface of right hemisphere depicting the superior temporal sulcus, superior temporal gyrus, fusiform gyrus, and temporal and frontal poles. Panel c shows midsaggital section depicting orbitofrontal cortex, medial prefrontal cortex, and anterior cingulate cortex. Adapted, with permission, from “Autism: A Window Onto the Development of the Social and the Analytic Brain,” by S. Baron-Cohen and M. K. Belmonte, 2005, Annual Review of Neuroscience, 28, p. 113. Copyright 2005 by Annual Reviews (www.annualreviews.org). Also adapted, with permission, from “The Limbic Lobe and Its Output Channels: Implications for Emotional Functions and Adaptive Behavior,” by L. Heimer and G. W. Van Hoesen, 2006, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 30, p. 135. Copyright 2006 by Elsevier.