The left inferior frontal gyrus is crucial for reading the mind in the eyes: Brain lesion evidence

Cortex

Volumn 58, Issue , 2014, Pages 9-17

  Dal Monte, Olga ^a   Schintu, Selene ^b,c   Pardini, Matteo ^d   Berti, Anna ^a   Wassermann, Eric M ^e   Grafman, Jordan ^f   Krueger, Frank ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^f REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^g GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental states; RMET; Semantic working memory; Traumatic brain injury; Voxel based lesion symptom mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; READING; READING THE MIND IN THE EYES TEST; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; THINKING; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VOXEL BASED LESION SYMPTOM MAPPING; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN INJURY; FRONTAL LOBE; INJURIES; NEUROIMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; THEORY OF MIND;

BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 84902477949     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.05.002     Document Type: Article

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