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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Mar 21.
Published in final edited form as: Cereb Cortex. 2020 Mar 21;30(2):836–848. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhz130

Table 1.

illustrates complex cognitive landscape of the attribution of cognitive roles to various regions of the person-knowledge network. We sampled published reviews and meta-analyses reporting regional function in in the context of person perception of knowledge. Attributions have been broadly grouped into the categories such as Perception, Semantic knowledge, or Working memory.

Brain region Cognitive function
OFA Perception (Adolphs 2002; 2003; Gobbini and Haxby 2007; Wieser and Brosch 2012)

FFA Perception (Adolphs 2002; 2003; Gobbini and Haxby 2007; Minnebusch and Daum 2009; Wieser and Brosch 2012; Werner et al. 2013)

OFC Motivation and reward (Bortolon et al. 2015)
Top-down modulation of OFA, FFA (Bortolon et al. 2015)
Emotion (Adolphs 2002)

IFG Semantic knowledge (Gobbini and Haxby 2007)
Working memory (Adolphs 2003)
Perception (Adolphs 2003; Calder and Young 2005; Minnebusch and Daum 2009)
Naming (Adolphs 2002)
Attractiveness & Physical knowledge (Bzdok et al. 2010)

Precuneus Familiarity (Adolphs 2003; Werner et al. 2013)
Episodic knowledge (Adolphs 2003; Gobbini and Haxby 2007; Patterson et al. 2007; Wieser and Brosch 2012)

vmPFC Social knowledge & personality traits (Adolphs 2003; Adolphs:2002wo Werner et al. 2013)
Mental states (Gobbini and Haxby 2007; Wieser and Brosch 2012)
Emotion (Werner et al. 2013)
Attractiveness & Physical knowledge (Bzdok et al. 2010)

ATL Semantic knowledge (Adolphs 2003; Gobbini and Haxby 2007; Olson et al. 2007; Wieser and Brosch 2012)
Identity representation (Adolphs 2003)
Naming (Calder and Young 2005; Olson et al. 2007; Patterson et al. 2007)
Familiarity (Olson et al. 2007; Werner et al. 2013)
Social knowledge (Olson et al. 2013)

pSTS Perception (Adolphs 2003)
Social knowledge & Mental states (Gobbini and Haxby 2007; Wieser and Brosch 2012)

Amygdala Emotion (Gobbini and Haxby 2007)
Physical knowledge (Bzdok et al. 2010)
Social knowledge (Bzdok et al. 2010)

ATFP Familiarity (Ross and Olson 2012; Heide et al. 2013)
Identity representation (Ross and Olson 2012)