Table 3

Results of the conjunction and interaction analyses for recognition of social information (i.e., old social pictures v. social new pictures)*

Talairach coordinates
Analysis; brain regionxyzt valueCluster size
Conjunction
Left hemisphere
 Inferior parietal lobule (BA 7,40)−30−55436.351718
 Precuneus (BA 7)−6−70375.822905
 Middle frontal (BA 46)−3938164.76903
 Middle temporal gyrus (BA 21)−61−29−84.7385
 Medial PFC (BA 8)−330474.53818
 Caudate−11584.32204
 Middle frontal (BA 8)−4915394.15224
 Insula (BA 13)−291763.75283
Right hemisphere
 Inferior parietal lobule (BA 40)43−51415.431537
 Caudate91115.19191
 Insula (BA 13)3017−74.87372
 Medial PFC (BA 32,10)535133.89818
 Middle frontal (BA 10)335364.20468
 Middle temporal gyrus (BA 21)55−37−53.82110
Interaction
Controls > patients
 Left hemisphere
  Parahippocampal gyrus (BA 35)−17−29−64.3669
 Right hemisphere
  Medial frontal/frontal pole (BA 10)1959175.62188
  Paracentral lobule (BA 31)2−21423.8971
  Superior frontal (BA 6)2128323.8787
Patients > controls
 Right hemisphere
  Thalamus17−3053.6054
  • BA = Brodmann area; PFC = prefrontal cortex.

  • * The cluster size represents the number of voxels. Talairach coordinates represent the peak voxel of each cluster where x, y, and z indicate the distance measured in millimetres from the anterior commissure in the sagittal, coronal and horizontal planes, respectively. All clusters of activation were significant at p < 0.005, uncorrected for multiple comparisons, with a minimum cluster size of 43 contiguous voxels, corresponding to a false-discovery rate of less than 5% across the whole brain as estimated by Monte Carlo simulation.

  • The t value reported for the conjunction analysis corresponds to the lowest t value between the groups.

  • These peak voxels belong to the same cluster of activation.