Table 1. An example of the experimental design.
Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 5 | Run 6 |
Familiar targets; buildings | Unfamiliar targets; buildings | Familiar targets; objects | Unfamiliar targets; objects | Familiar targets; faces | Unfamiliar targets; faces |
The experiment consisted of six runs. In each run ¼ of the trials were viewing trials (were participants watched a centrally presented picture), ¾ were tracking trials. Familiar and unfamiliar runs were intertwined. Presented stimuli throughout a run were either buildings, objects or faces. In a familiar trial both targets and distractors remained the same from trial to trial, whereas in an unfamiliar run target-identities changed from trial to trial. Familiar runs consisted of 96 trials, unfamiliar runs of 36 trials. These 6 runs were followed by a localizer task, in which the participant watched faces, buildings or objects.