Table II.

Results from Granger causal connectivity analyses of the right and left hippocampus with the cortical areas involved in visceral somatosensation and emotional feeling; social cognition; and self‐related processing, during admiration for virtue (AV), compassion for social pain (CSP), admiration for skill (AS), and compassion for physical pain (CPP). Italics denote connectivity with the left hippocampus; nonitalics with the right hippocampus. Bold denotes direction of influence “toward” the hippocampus; nonbold denotes “from” the hippocampus. Talairach coordinates are in the format of x y z; negative x values correspond to the left hemisphere; coordinates are taken from regions showing Granger causal connectivity after thresholding using the false discovery rate statistic, q(FDR) < 0.01, corresponding to the following critical t‐statistics: ≥0.82 (AV), ≥1.17 (AS), ≥0.77 (CSP), and ≥0.91 (CPP)

	AV	CSP	AS	CPP
Visceral somatosensation (emotional feeling)
anterior insula	−33 16 −2, − 32 12 − 2,	−29 16 5, − 36 − 3 − 5
	−31 19 −8
anterior cingulate cortex	−1 4 35, − 2 − 3 34	0 16 40, 2 11 34
Social cognitive processing
temporal‐parietal junction		−47 −52 23
middle temporal gyrus	47 −28 −3	48 −32 2	−60 −22 −11	54 −13 −18,
				−54 −1 −20
superior temporal sulcus	−51 −33 −3,	52 −22 −4,	42 11 −20
	57 − 28 − 3	−53 0 −8
superior temporal gyrus	48 − 19 13	−51 −30 13,
	−55 −44 4,	48 −13 3
	−53 −1 19
temporal pole		−52 2 −1
ventromedial PFC	−1 41 −5	−3 47 −5	−9 41 −8,
			15 38 −5
ventrolateral PFC	−28 13 −10, −33 37 0	−29 24 −7
	29 43 0
Self‐related processing
posteromedial cortices:
posterior cingulate	3 −34 31, 3 − 39 31	0 −41 31
retrosplenium	0 −38 23,−6 −53 16
precuneus	4 −40 40, 7 −61 44;	2 −62 33	−1 −61 46
	6 − 49 60, 9 − 52 35	−3 −51 31,
		−2 −47 46, 0
		−57 32, 1 − 67 44
dorsomedial PFC
	− 1 42 31	−3 51 9