Table 2 Semantic performance (proportion correct) in the original set and subsets of stimuli matching for psycholinguistic nuisance variables in patients showing FDR-corrected significant dissociations.

From: Social and emotion dimensional organizations in the abstract semantic space: the neuropsychological evidence

Types of dissociation

Case no

Age, education, sex

MMSE

Condition 1

Condition 2

Subsets matched for nuisance variables

Brain lesion locations

Diagnosis and WHO classification

Condition 1

Condition 2

Effect size (p)

Social versus nonsocial

   

Social

Nonsocial

Social

Nonsocial

   

Social < nonsocial

014-POST

67, 5, F

n.a.#

9 of 19 (47%)

14 of 16 (88%)

7 of 14 (50%)

13 of 14 (93%)

-4.466 (.001)

L IPL, SPL, PreC, PostC &

Cerebral cysticercosis

Social > nonsocial

030-PRE

50, 5, M

19

28 of 34 (82%)

16 of 27 (59%)

20 of 25 (80%)

15 of 25 (60%)

3.887 (.008)

R MFG, IFG, STG

Meningioma, microcystic, grade I

Emotional versus non-emotional

   

Emotional

Non-emotional

Emotional

Non-emotional

   

Emotional < non-emotional

009-PRE

68, 5, F

27

16 of 30 (53%)

25 of 31 (81%)

10 of 16 (63%)

14 of 16 (88%)

− 3.785 (.006)

L SPL

Metastatic tumor

018-PRE

60, 5, M

25

20 of 30 (67%)

26 of 31 (84%)

10 of 16 (63%)

13 of 16 (81%)

− 3.161 (.018)

n.a

Atypical meningioma

027-PRE

60, 11, F

27

21 of 30 (70%)

30 of 31 (97%)

12 of 16 (75%)

15 of 16 (94%)

− 3.093 (.014)

R SFG

Meningioma, transitional

009-POST

68, 5, F

n.a

9 of 17 (53%)

13 of 18 (72%)

4 of 8 (50%)

7 of 10 (70%)

− 3.097 (.030)

L SPL, PostC, Precuneus, SMG

Metastatic tumor

018-POST

60, 5, M

n.a

11 of 17 (65%)

14 of 18 (78%)

4 of 8 (50%)

7 of 10 (70%)

− 3.062 (.029)

n.a

Atypical meningioma

030-POST

50, 5, M

n.a

17 of 30 (57%)

24 of 31 (77%)

7 of 16 (44%)

13 of 16 (81%)

− 5.531 (.0003)

R MFG, IFG

Meningioma, microcystic, grade I

Emotional > non-emotional

026-PRE

45, 8, F

25

14 of 17 (82%)

8 of 18 (44%)

7 of 8 (88%)

6 of 10 (60%)

2.595 (.039)

L SFG, MFG, IFG

Glioblastoma, grade IV

016-POST

41, 16, M

n.a.#

16 of 17 (94%)

12 of 18 (67%)

7 of 8 (88%)

5 of 10 (50%)

3.303 (.016)

L IFG, STG, Insula

Anaplastic oligoastrocytoma

  1. n.a. not available, L left, R right, IPL inferior parietal lobule, SPL superior parietal lobule, PreC precentral gyrus, PostC postcentral gyrus, MFG middle frontal gyrus, IFG inferior frontal gyrus, STG superior temporal gyrus, SFG superior frontal gyrus, SMG supramarginal gyrus, F female, M male.
  2. #: 014-POST, presurgical MMSE score = 19; 016-POST, presurgical MMSE score = 28; &, lesion locations in the case’s presurgical MRI scan are shown because her postsurgical MRI scan is not available.