Figure 2.

Distinct neural correlates for loneliness and wisdom. A significant relationship was observed for loneliness during angry emotion bias in the left transverse temporal cortex in the theta band (A) and in the left superior parietal cortex in the beta band (B). In contrast, a significant relationship was observed for wisdom during happy emotion bias in the left transverse temporal cortex in the theta band (C) and in the left insula in the alpha band (D). Relevant cortical regions are highlighted in blue on inflated brain surface parcellations. The loneliness robust regression model controlled for social network score and wisdom, and the wisdom model controlled for social network score and loneliness. Neural data 5 SD outliers were removed prior to modeling. Fit lines are shown with 95% CI, y-axes values are log-scaled.