Fig. 2.

Experiment 2 design. (A) Subjects read sentences constructed from a menu of five verbs and four nouns, with one noun in the agent role and another in the patient role. (B) For each trial, separate pattern classifiers attempted to identify the agent and the patient based on activity within subregions of lmSTC. (C) Classifiers were trained using data from four of five verbs and tested on data from the withheld verb. This required the classifiers to identify agents and patients based on patterns that are reused across contexts.