Table 2.

Example structure-function relationships based on evidence from lesions. The table lists some of the disproportionate impairments in social processing that arise from damage to one of the structures from Figure 1a. There is often substantial hemispheric asymmetry and, in all cases where data is available, bilateral lesions are the most severe. The color scheme is the same as for the ‘social brain’ regions shown in Figure 1a.

Lesion site	Social deficit
Occipitotemporal cortex/ FFA (R>L)	Face agnosia
Temporal Pole (L > R)	Naming people
Amygdala (bilateral)	Fear recognition
Ventromedial prefrontal cortex (R > L)	Social emotions, social decisions
Insula	Empathy, social context
Somatosensory cortex (not shown) (R > L)	Emotion recognition