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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 7.
Published in final edited form as: Brain. 2006 Sep 28;129(Pt 11):2945–2956. doi: 10.1093/brain/awl254

Table 2.

Regions where empathy scores positively correlated with grey matter tissue density, corrected for FWE across the whole brain at a significance level of P < 0.05

Anatomic region BA Cluster size x y z Z-score FWE
Total empathy score (sum of EC + PT)
    R temporal pole 21 2421 58 10 −33 5.52 0.001
20 2421 40 18 −35 4.92 0.009
38 2421 41 15 −25 4.65 0.028
    R anterior fusiform gyrus 20 985 39 −17 −41 5.07 0.005
    R caudate/subcallosal gyrus 25 1093 10 10 −3 4.90 0.010
25 5 20 −2 4.67 0.025
Main effect of EC subscale
    R temporal pole 21 554 58 10 −33 5.09 0.004
21 554 48 17 −36 4.64 0.029
    R caudate/subcallosal gyrus 25 692 4 22 −2 4.80 0.015
    R caudate/subcallosal gyrus 25 692 11 12 −5 4.77 0.017
    R inferior frontal gyrus 47 3 34 24 −11 4.53 0.046
Main effect of PT subscale
    R temporal pole 21 372 59 9 −33 5.00 0.006
    R temporal pole 20 171 38 18 −34 4.65 0.028
    R anterior fusiform gyrus 20 892 40 −16 −40 4.98 0.007
    R posterior fusiform gyrus 30 122 17 −33 −20 4.78 0.017
    R caudate/subcallosal gyrus 25 36 7 4 −1 4.61 0.033