Fig. 3.

Task and fMRI activations from (Ross and Olson, 2010). From top to bottom: Heider and Simmel (1944) social attribution task (baseline task had same low-level visual characteristics but lacked the impression of animacy and biological motion); a verbal theory of mind task (baseline task had the same task demands, contained the same number of words, and contained proper nouns but lacked a theory of mind element); a semantic comparison task (baseline task required the comparison of two non-social words that were matched to the social words on many psycholinguistic variables).