Table 1.

Demographic and neuropsychological information for the vmPFC participant group

IDAgeSexHandEduEti.ChronWAISCOWACFAVLTWMSLesion volume
VIQSimInfVocRawNorm1/5/DelayGMIAIADADRTotalvmPFC
31875M10014Res.3914218161654530.4910/14/10109118114125764820.40
202561F10016Str.191131211125049−1.086/13/0611410599130304330.44
235266F10014SAH1410811111034540.617/14/11109114111115112390.20
239168F10013Res.1311012121259490.0111/15/14132120124120537190.56
335063M10018Res.111191412114039−1.928/14/13108117114100340820.50
353475F10012Res.5107a14a9a11a32550.747/15/12117134114135349550.52
Mean6814.516.8116.513.511.81244.849.8−0.28.2/14.2/11.0114.8118112.7120.8401510.44
SD5.92.211.813.22.52.32.111.15.91.11.9/0.8/2.89.19.48.012.4223530.13
  • vmPFC participants were cognitively intact, with little evidence of impairment in verbal functions or memory. ID, Patient identification; Hand, handedness, 100 (fully right-handed); Edu, education in years; Eti, etiology, including resection (res.), stroke (str.), subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH); Chr, chronicity, years between brain injury and experiment; WAIS, Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, 3rd edition; VIQ, verbal IQ; Sim, Inf, and Voc, similarities, information, and vocabulary subtests age-corrected scaled scores; COWA, Controlled Oral Word Association task scaled scores; CF, category fluency task, raw score and age-corrected Z score; AVLT, Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test, trial 1 performance, trial 5 performance, and 30 min delay performance; WMS, Wechsler Memory Scale-III; GMI, WMS general memory index; AI, WMS auditory immediate index; AD, WMS auditory delay index; ADR, WMS auditory delayed recognition index; Lesion volume, Total, total lesion volume (mm3); vmPFC, proportion of vmPFC gray matter affected by lesion. Here, the vmPFC was an anatomically defined region of interest (Kumaran et al., 2015).

  • aWAIS-IV used for patient 3534.