Figure 1.

a, Timeline of the experimental procedure for sentence priming in experiment 1. Priming sentences, presented through headphones, either referred to faces or scenes. The picture probes were either of a face or a place. Colored fixation crosses (red and blue) prompted each plausibility response. b, Event-related response to face picture probes appearing after face sentence primes (red) and place sentence primes (blue). Shaded areas represent the SE of the difference between the two waveforms. Consequently, the same error term is superimposed on both waveforms.