Figure 1.

Schematic time course of a trial of the soccer decision‐making task during fMRI assessment. A trial started with the presentation of a fixation cross for 10 s. Afterwards, brief video clips of real soccer decision‐making situations were shown (ranging from 2 to 12 s). During the idea generation period a fixed image of the soccer scene remained visible on the screen, signaling participants to imagine themselves as the acting player, and—depending on the respective task instruction—to think either of an obvious/conventional (switched off bulb, control condition) or a creative/original move (lightened bulb) to score a goal. When they thought of a solution/move they were instructed to press the IDEA button, and to vocalize the imagined move (max 10 s; e.g., pass to 1, then pass to 3, etc.) [Color figure can be viewed at http://wileyonlinelibrary.com]