Fig. 2.

On day 1, participants were first exposed to all famous person and place (A) items during scanning. They then learned a set of initial (AB) pairs associating each person and place to an object, over four study-test cycles. On day 2, participants learned a set of overlapping (BC) and non-overlapping (XY; not shown) object pairs. Finally, participants completed a surprise inference test of indirect (AC) associations. Outside the scanner, participants were tested on the object-object associations (BC and XY), and then tested on the initial (AB) pairs again.