Fig. 1.

We employed a block design for the experiment. Schematic depiction of stimuli and task design of each block in the fMRI study. First, a fixation crosshair was presented, followed by the experimental stimuli, which were displayed for 5.75 s. The top line in each stimulus-containing rectangle presented a question (‘Do you agree with the sentence?’ for a self-task and ‘Do you think you are similar to him/her for an other task’), and the bottom line described a response with or without autistic traits.