Table 1.
Task characteristics.
| Characteristic | Emotion Identification (EI) |
Face Matching (FM) |
Gender Classification (GC) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Task duration | 4:03 | 5:55 | 6:24 |
| Task design | Event-related | Blocked | Blocked |
| Regressors of interest | Happy; fearful; neutral | Faces; shapes | Happy; fearful; neutral |
| Instruction | Explicit (match emotion) | Implicit (match face or shape to test stimuli) | Implicit (classify gender of face) |
| Regressors of no interest | 6 movement parameters | 6 movement parameters | 6 movement parameters + errors |
| Contrast | Faces > fixation | Faces > shapes | Faces > fixation |
Design and analysis characteristics of the three emotional processing tasks used.