Brain regions that were significantly more active in men than women (first part of table) or more active in women than men (second part) for emotional expressions of contempt or disgust (relative to standards; columns indicate hemisphere, talairach coordinates [x, y, z], peak t-value and number of active voxels in the cluster).

<p>Brain regions that were significantly more active in men than women (first part of table) or more active in women than men (second part) for emotional expressions of contempt or disgust (relative to standards; columns indicate hemisphere, talairach coordinates [x, y, z], peak t-value and number of active voxels in the cluster).</p

Bilateral activation of amygdala during perception of contempt and disgust expressions (shared activation; conjunction analysis).

<p>Bilateral activation of amygdala during perception of contempt and disgust expressions (shared activation; conjunction analysis).</p

Brain regions that were significantly more active in men and in women, respectively, for male faces denoting disgust or contempt (as compared to female faces denoting the same emotion).

<p>Contrasts that are not mentioned in the table did not show significant activation differences.</p

Presentation of stimuli in the visual oddball task with emotional faces as distractors and random dot patterns as standards.

<p>All stimuli (faces and standards) were presented for 1.9 s. There were 9, 10 or 11 standards after each face presentation (this was randomized). Total duration of the task was approximately 35 min.</p

Brain regions activated stronger in men than in women for the contrast of contempt – disgust (there were no regions that were activated stronger in women for this contrast).

<p>Activation in the left superior frontal gyrus was associated with scores on the Social Dominance Orientation scale.</p

Brain regions activated stronger in men than in women (blue color) or stronger in women than in men (orange color) in response to emotional expressions of contempt (above) or disgust (below).

<p>Brain regions activated stronger in men than in women (blue color) or stronger in women than in men (orange color) in response to emotional expressions of contempt (above) or disgust (below).</p

Glass brain and rendered view depicting the main effect of task, as characterized with a one-way within-subjects ANOVA.

<p>Significant differences were recognized at <i>p</i><0.05 (FDR corrected) and extent threshold of 10 voxels.</p

Brain activation differentially associated with Self and Other conditions.

<p>SMA = Supplementary Motor Area. Activations were identified with a <i>t</i>-test between [self>semantic]>[other>semantic], and vice-versa. Significance was set at <i>p</i><0.05 (FDR corrected), encompassing at least 10 voxels.</p

Mean scores (S.D.) on questionnaires for the alexithymic and non-alexithymic groups.

*<p>significant at p<0.01 level (two-sided).</p>**<p>significant at p<0.001 level (two-sided).</p

Mean scores (%) (S.D.) on the cognitive-emotional tasks for the high and low alexithymic groups.

*<p>significant at p<0.005 level (2-tailed).</p