Fig. 1. Design of fMRI-paradigm.
Diagram of the face-name associative paradigm. The task comprised events of unfamiliar and familiar face-name pairs organized within blocks of novelty and repetition, respectively. The novelty blocks consisted of 7 face-name pairs (Ni, i = 1,..7). The repetition blocks consisted of 7 trials during which two face-name pairs were alternated, one male and one female. (Rj, j = 1,2). The novelty, repetition and visual fixation (+) blocks, as well as the events within the blocks (Ni, i = 1,…7; Rj, j = 1,2; +) are depicted along with their corresponding duration. Each block was shown twice and alternated with visual fixation blocks. One functional run lasted for 4 min and 5 s, and a total of 6 functional runs were presented to each participant. The face shown in the diagram is fake, non-identifiable and was generated using artificial intelligence91,92 for illustration purposes of the fMRI-task only.