TABLE 2

Brain regions involved in social cognitive functions

Brain RegionsSocial Cognitive Functions
Prefrontal cortex
 DLPFCaTop-down control of social behavior
 VLPFCbIntegration of verbal and nonverbal information
 VMPFCcRegulation for emotional responses
STS/STGdIntegration of auditory and visual perception
ThalamuseSensory gate for auditory and visual stimuli
HippocampusfEmotion-associated memory, neurocognition
AmygdalafEmotional responses
CerebellumgCognition (early childhood), body and limb movement

  • ↵a Heatherton and Wagner, 2011.

  • ↵b Levy and Wagner, 2011.

  • ↵c Motzkin et al., 2015.

  • ↵d Kreifelts et al., 2007.

  • ↵e Geyer and Vollenweider, 2008.

  • ↵f Orsini and Maren, 2012.

  • ↵g Wang et al., 2014.