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. 2020 May 22;11:2595. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-16089-9

Table 4.

Review of the role of right dorsal superior temporal gyrus in social concepts processing.

First author Year Peak coordinate Methods Contrasts
Zahn 2007 57 12 0 fMRI Social vs animal function concepts
Zahn 2007 51 18 −12 fMRI Social vs animal function concepts corrected by social concepts vs fixation
Zahn 2007 51 15 −12 fMRI Conjunction of social vs animal function concepts, correlations with descriptiveness of social behaviour and meaning relatedness
Zahn 2009 54 0 −3 fMRI Effect of descriptiveness of social behaviour
Zahn 2009 57 −18 6 fMRI Effect of descriptiveness of social behaviour
Zahn 2009 60 −3 −3 fMRI Effect of descriptiveness of social behaviour masked by the same effect in Zahn et al.,64
Zahn 2009 54 9 −24 FTD Hypometabolism of FTD with right superior ATL lesion
Zahn 2009 51 9 −3 FTD Hypometabolism of FTD with right superior ATL lesion masked by Hypometabolism of FTD with social concept selective impairment
Ross 2010 59 3 −19 fMRI Social vs neutral car video
Ross 2010 66 −10 −24 fMRI Social vs animal function concepts
Pobric 2016 53 8 −13 TMS Social vs non-social concepts
Binney 2016 57 9 −18 fMRI Social vs matched-abstract concepts
Average 56 4 −10
Our study 59 3 −2 SD Correlation of disinhibition and atrophy
Our study 51 6 −12 SD Correlation of disinhibition and atrophy

The peak coordinates of our study are from the univariate voxel-based correlation mapping result.

FTD frontotemporal dementia, TMS transcranial magnetic stimulation, SD semantic dementia.