Table 3.
Characteristics of patients with and without impairments in affective empathy
| Patients with impaired affective empathy |
Patients with intact affective empathy |
Z | Exact Significance | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median | Mean ± SD | Median | Mean ± SD | |||
| Prosody error rate | 65% | 61.4 ± 12 | 37% | 38.0 ± 14 | −2.5 | 0.008 |
| Neglect: gap detection error rate | 0% | 0.4 ± 1.0 | 0% | 1.1 ± 2.4 | −0.02 | 1 |
| Line bisection deviation (in % of line neglected) | 2.6% | 4.8 ± 9.4 | 2.7% | 3.1 ± 1.7 | −0.47 | 0.65 |
| Scene copy error rate | 4.2% | 11.3 ± 23.9 | 5.5% | 10.1 ± 14.5 | −0.06 | 1 |
| Volume of infarct in cm3 | 9.8 | 26.5 ± 45.8 | 16.5 | 33.6 ± 58.1 | −0.82 | 0.43 |
| Age | 61 | 60.8 ± 11.4 | 46 | 48.6 ± 13.8 | −2.3 | 0.02 |
| % Female | 29% | 38% | 1 | |||