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. 2025 Aug 22;12:1465. doi: 10.1038/s41597-025-05154-x

Table 4.

Description of canonical neuroimaging contrasts per task.

Task Contrasts Covariates

Naturalistic video viewing task

task-alignvideo

Video  > baseline rating Emotion ratings
Encoding models of video attributes

Naturalistic narratives task

task-narratives

Audio  > Text narrative
Narrative (Audio and Text)  > baseline Expectation & Feeling rating

Multimodal affective task

task-social

Somatic pain  > baseline Expectation & Outcome rating
Vicarious pain  > baseline Expectation & Outcome rating
Cognitive discomfort  > baseline Expectation & Outcome rating

Dynamic Faces task

task-faces

Age  > baseline Age rating
Gender  > baseline Sex rating
Facial expression  > baseline Intensity rating

Video-based multiattribute

social judgement task

task-shortvideo

Likeability  > baseline Likeability rating
Similarity  > baseline Similarity rating
Mental state attribution  > baseline Mental state attribution rating
Fractionated “Why/how” task Why  > How Accuracy (image detection)
Fractionated “False-belief” task False belief  > False photograph Accuracy (true/false judgment)
Fractionated “Posner” task Invalid cue  > Valid cue Accuracy (target detection)
Fractionated “Memory” task Encoding  > baseline Accuracy (old/new identification)
Retrieval  > baseline Accuracy (old/new identification)

To facilitate exploration of the dataset, we highlight the primary processes associated with each task by outlining the canonical contrasts each task (listed in Task and Contrasts column). Additionally, Covariates indicate the participant ratings collected during each trial. These covariates could be integrated into within-subject models or included as between-subject individual difference measures after further computation. For example, the Narratives task includes contrasts such as 1) audio vs. text modality comparison, 2) narrative vs. baseline comparison, and 3) the incorporation of behavioral ratings as covariates.