We used the Vigilance Task scanning runs to examine the functional connectivity with the peak activations in the left and right anterior temporal person-selective clusters identified in the Fact-Learning Task.
In addition to the other social-processing regions, activity in the left anterior temporal person-selective cluster was tightly coupled with activity in the corresponding region in the right anterior temporal lobe.
The anterior temporal person-selective clusters, identified in the Fact-Learning Task scans, were found to be functionally connected with virtually the entire social cognition network, as measured during the independent Vigilance-Task scan.
As with the left hemisphere, activity in the right anterior temporal person-selective cluster was correlated with activity in regions previously implicated in social processing, including the medial PFC bilaterally, the amygdala bilaterally, the left posterior cingulate/precuneus, the left fusiform gyrus, and the left anterior temporal lobe (Fig. 4).
The left anterior temporal person-selective cluster was functionally connected with brain regions frequently implicated in social cognition, including the medial PFC, the pSTS, the amygdala, and the precuneus/posterior cingulate bilaterally, and in the left lateral portion of the fusiform gyrus (Fig. 4).
Finally, activity in the left anterior temporal person-selective region was correlated with activity in regions known to support more general information processing, including the left inferior frontal gyrus and the left hippocampus (see Supplemental Table 1 for a complete list of regions functionally connected with the left anterior temporal seed voxel).
Other studies also indicated the temporal within-person and between-person variance in urinary BPA concentrations from different populations of children and adults over periods ranging from days to months (Aikawa et al. 2004; Braun et al. 2011; Mahalingaiah et al. 2008; Teitelbaum et al. 2008).
How is such a gift of self possible for temporal beings, persons for whom the vicissitudes of time may alter feelings or opinion of the other?
Outside the anterior temporal lobes, person-selective encoding effects were observed in regions commonly implicated in social processing, including the medial PFC, precuneus and posterior cingulate, and the right pSTS.
As a result, there is considerable within-person and between-person temporal variability of BPA concentrations in spot urine samples (Arakawa et al. 2004; Mahalingaiah et al. 2008; Nepomnaschy et al. 2009; Teitelbaum et al. 2008), and hourly variability of BPA urinary concentrations can be expected.
These findings suggest that the anterior temporal lobes support person-specific knowledge, with the left hemisphere being relatively more important for person naming.
