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. 2009 Nov 17;20(8):1853–1864. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhp249

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Published by Oxford University Press 2009.

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Figure 1. — Task design. (A) Trial structure for the fMRI experiment, in which both “partial trials” (sentence only) and “full trials” (sentence and pictures) were presented, in order to disambiguate hemodynamic responses for the 2 events. (B) A sample picture set for the reversible sentence “The woman who the man is teaching is very tired right now.” The target shows the correct arrangement. A syntactic foil has the thematic roles of the 2 named actors switched, whereas a lexical foil (not used in the fMRI experiment) substitutes one of the actors. (C) A sample picture set for the irreversible sentence “The glass that the man is washing has a small chip in it.”