The Dorsal Medial Prefrontal Cortex Responds Preferentially to Social Interactions during Natural Viewing

Table 2.

The four most distinctive verbs used to describe the content of response, profile videos along with the number of unique verbs for each profile video description

Brain region E Four most distinctive verbs
Verbs 1 2 3 4
Dorsal MPFC 109 Talking (56) Smiling (31) Laughing (24) Interacting (21)
Lateral fusiform 108 Twitching (88) Staring (14) Eating (41) Watching (13)
Medial fusiform 120 Driving (63) Walking (27) Moving (26) Playing (13)
Intraparietal sulcus 110 Smoking (75) Eating (51) Cleaning (23) Washing (17)
  • Verb distinctiveness was calculated by taking the frequency for which each verb was reported for a particular region and adjusting that value for the overall frequency for which that verb was used across the entire corpus of verbs. Word frequency is shown in parentheses.

  1. The Journal of Neuroscience vol. 36 no. 26 6917-6925
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