A. Simulation task. Participants were instructed to simulate a hypothetical
future episode that involved all of the cued episodic details (i.e., 3, 4, or 5
person, place and object details; every simulation trial consisted of only one
place cue and a varying combination of person and object cues, with the
restriction that there was always at least one person and object). Participants
were instructed to continually simulate until the onset of the probe question.
B. Sentence task. Participants were instructed to construct a sentence that
ranked the cued objects by their respective size. Trials varied with respect to
the number of objects to be included in their sentence (i.e., 3, 4, or 5
objects). Participants were instructed to continually think about the meanings
of the word or repeat the sentence until the onset of the probe question.
Durations are shown to the left of each frame.