Fig. 1.

fMRI task. Subjects watched video clips of five female and seven male singers singing badly in front of an audience during a singing competition. The singers acted either embarrassed or proud of their singing and expressed this via facial expression and bodily gestures. Altogether 12 blocks of video clips were presented in a pseudorandom order to each subject. Each 24-s block contained two video clips representing the same task condition (12 s each). The same video clips appeared twice through the scanning (in separate blocks). A fixation cross was displayed for 12 s between the blocks.