Figure 2.

Behavioral tasks and example stimuli. A, In the word-pair task, participants viewed two real words whose combination was considered to be either meaningful (e.g., tiny radish) or non-meaningful (e.g., fast blueberry), as determined by the results of a norming study. On each trial, participants were asked to decide whether the word pair formed a meaningful combination or not. B, In the letter-string control task, participants viewed two letter strings that were either the same letter strings (e.g., pnqvt pnqvt) or differed by one letter (e.g., vsbsl vsbql). On each trial, participants were asked to decide whether the letter strings matched or not.