Figure 3. The fMRI paradigm.

In the main fMRI experiment, participants viewed images of the 12 selected animals and four additional objects (cars, trees, chairs, persons). Participants indicated, via button-press, one-back object repetitions (here, two parrots). In the animacy localizer experiment, participants viewed blocks of animal (top sequence) and non-animal (bottom sequence) images. All images were different from the ones used in the main experiment. Each block lasted 16s, and participants indicated one-back image repetitions (here, the fish image).