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. 2012 Aug 22;7(8):e42929. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042929

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.