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. 2016 Jul 5;27(7):3698–3712. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhw191

Table 2.

Regions where GMV was found to be correlated with neuroticism, extraversion, and conscientiousness in the male sample

Regions (size in voxels) X Y Z Cytoarchitectonic assignments
Neuroticism
Parieto-occipital sulcus/ Cuneus (6053 voxels) 0 −78 13 left hOc1 (left hOc3d; right hOc1; left hOc1)
Left fusiform gyrus/ cerebellum (1027 voxels) −46 −49 −28 left lobule VIIa Crus I (left FG2; left lobule VIIa crus II; left lobule VI)
Right fusiform gyrus (297 voxels) 42 −48 −25 right FG2 (right lobule VI; right lobule VIIa crus I)
Extraversion
Precuneus/parieto-occipital sulcus (11.001 voxels) −1 −69 33 left hOc1 (right hOc1; right Area 5 L; left hOc3d)
Thalamus (621 voxels) 9 −31 0 right Th-temporal (right Th-Parietal; left Th-Prefrontal; right Subiculum)
Left fusiform gyrus/Cerebellum (213 voxels) −46 −48 −28 left lobule VIIa crus I (left FG2; left lobule VI)
Right cerebellum (444 voxels) 13 −81 −21 right lobule VIIa crus I (right lobule VI; right hOc4v; right hOc3v)
Conscientiousness
Left precuneus/parieto-occipital sulcus (491 voxels) −9 −73 30 left hOc4d (left hOc3d; left Area 7 P; left Area 7 M)

x, y and z coordinates denote the center of gravity in MNI space.

Reference for probabilistic cytoarchitectonic mapping of: hOc1 (Amunts et al. 2000); hOc3d, hOc4d (Kujovic et al. 2013); lobule VIIa crusI and lobule VI (Diedrichsen et al. 2009); FG2 (Caspers et al. 2013); Area 5 L, 7 P, 7 M (Scheperjans et al. 2008); hOc3v and hOc4v (Rottschy et al. 2007); Th-temporal, Th-parietal, Th-prefrontal, and Subiculum (Behrens et al. 2003) .