Table 2.

Characteristics of patients with and without lesions in the ‘Affective Empathy Network’ (right prefrontal cortex, orbitofrontal gyrus, temporal pole, anterior insula, anterior cingulate, amygdala), excluding those with lesions >100 cm³ and <1.45 cm³

	Patients with empathy network lesions		Patients without network lesions		Z	Exact significance
	Median	Mean ± SD	Median	Mean ± SD
Empathy error rate	30%	34.4 ± 27	0%	8.8 ± 17	−2.5	0.01
Prosody error rate	60%	51.3 ± 18	36.5%	37.2 ± 6	−1.7	0.11
Neglect: gap detection error rate	0%	0.82 ± 2.3	0%	0.91 ± 2.0	−0.18	0.89
Line bisection deviation (in % of)	2.2%	5.5 ± 11.2	2.7%	3.1 ± 1.6	−1.12	0.27
Scene copy error rate	5.6%	15.9 ± 28.0	2.9%	8.7 ± 13.4	−0.98	0.33
Volume of infarct in cm3	30.6	26.6 ± 15.9	15.0	16.6 ± 16.1	−1.2	0.22
Age	52	51.3 ± 13	49	50.7 ± 13	−0.088	0.93
% Female	44%		33%			1.00