Table 2.

Regions of low gray matter volume associated with three facets of perceived emotional intelligence based on voxel-based morphometry analysis

			MNI coordinates
Region	Hemisphere	Brodmann Area	x	y	z	Cluster size, k (voxels)	Z-score
Attention to emotion
Superior frontal gyrus	R	10	18	62	21	10	3.14
	R	6	11	−13	76	13	3.24
Middle frontal gyrus	R	10	33	61	7	482	3.63
Medial frontal gyrus	L	6	−11	−3	59	478	4.10
	L	6	−8	−19	56	179	3.77
	R	6	7	−17	57	202	3.63
	R	6	10	−2	63	164	3.47
Frontopolar gyrus	R	10	12	69	8	225	3.55
Lateral orbital gyrus	L	11	−42	35	−19	47	3.45
	R	11	44	41	−17	405	3.37
Medial orbital gyrus	L	11	−14	26	−22	281	3.56
	R	11	10	64	−21	10	3.33
Inferior frontal gyrus	R	45	48	30	7	11	3.25
Cingulate gyrus	L	32	−11	29	32	174	3.60
	R	32	12	39	16	18	3.24
Precentral gyrus	R	4	13	−30	67	98	3.43
Cuneus	R	18	25	−82	18	9	3.24
Clarity of emotion
No correlations emerged
Emotional repair
Cingulate gyrus	L	32	−12	33	26	377	3.77
	L	10	−13	50	2	9	3.25
Supramarginal gyrus	R	40	37	−49	37	7	3.18

Note: MNI = Montreal Neurological Institute; L = left; R = right. All z-scores reflect a VBM threshold of P < 0.001 (uncorrected) and a minimum cluster size (k) of 7 contiguous voxels. All correlations are positive such that areas of reduced volume reported here are associated with lower self-reported ability in trait meta-mood domains. Coordinates reflect peak correlation within a cluster. Localization was done using the Talairach Daemon (Lancaster et al., 2000), with Brodmann areas and anatomical labels confirmed with the Talairach and Tournoux (1988) and Duvernoy (1999) atlases.