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. 2020 May 8;11:2313. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15146-7

Fig. 1. Subjects respond to sequences of stimuli drawn as random walks on an underlying transition graph.

Fig. 1

a Example sequence of visual stimuli (left) representing a random walk on an underlying transition network (right). b For each stimulus, subjects are asked to respond by pressing a combination of one or two buttons on a keyboard. c Each of the 15 possible button combinations corresponds to a node in the transition network. We only consider networks with nodes of uniform degree k = 4 and edges with uniform transition probability 0.25. d Subjects were asked to respond to sequences of 1500 such nodes drawn from two different transition architectures: a modular graph (left) and a lattice graph (right). e Average reaction times for the different button combinations, where the diagonal elements represent single-button presses and the off-diagonal elements represent two-button presses. f Average reaction times as a function of trial number, characterized by a steep drop-off in the first 500 trials followed by a gradual decline in the remaining 1000 trials. In e and f, averages are taken over responses during random walks on the modular and lattice graphs. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.