Fig. 2.

The face processing fMRI paradigm. Blocks of neutral, fearful and scrambled faces were alternately projected. A fixation cross (fix) was shown for 15.75 s at the beginning of the run, after six face blocks, and at the end of the run. Each block lasted 15.75 s, a whole run lasted 236.25 s. Twenty-one faces (from seven different identities) were presented for 0.75 s each in one block. Male and female faces were shown in separate runs, counterbalanced across runs