Figure 3. Parametric effects of task focus.

(A) Regions showing a differential relationship with task focus across the two states (autobiographical memory (AM) retrieval and reading). These regions show greater activity when participants reported better focus on the task during autobiographical memory retrieval and poorer task focus during reading. (B) A formal conjunction between these regions in (A) showing more activation with greater task focus on memory retrieval and those showing greater activity during memory retrieval than reading (i.e., blue regions in Figure 2A showing main effect of task contrast). (C) Task focus effects in reading (red; negative correlation with task focus) and autobiographical memory recall task (blue; positive correlation with task focus), relative to the implicit baseline (i.e., the first fixation interval). (Source data for the unthresholded maps of task focus in A-C are provided in Neurovault at https://neurovault.org/collections/9432/).