Figure 1.

Trial structure of the prediction task. The stem and the outcome stimuli are matched for high- and low-cloze trials and the context sentences are matched for length; here, two items with the same stem in which one has a very predictable sentence ending (cloze probability 0.95) and the other does not (cloze probability 0.31). Three temporal events are modeled independently in the analysis: the context (3 s), the stem (1 s), and the outcome (1 s). Ellipsis indicate variable delay/temporal jitter.