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. 2022 Apr 26;13:874411. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.874411

Table 1.

Summary of notes for trials in the task familiarization and test phases. Each trial was 14 seconds long. See Figure 1 for time course of audio.

Task familiarization phase
Trials Notes
A1, A2 There was one Same Speaker and one Different speaker trial. For each trial:
  • In the first 2 seconds, two animal cartoons appeared silently side-by-side

  • At the 2 second mark, one animal made a sound and wiggled

  • At the 9 second mark, either the same or different animal makes a sound and wiggled. No ferns descended.

A3, A4 There was one Same Speaker and one Different speaker trial. For each trial:
  • In the first 2 seconds, two animals appeared silently side-by-side

  • At the 2 second mark, one animal made a sound and wiggled

  • At the 9 second mark, ferns descended. Then, either the same or different animal made a sound and wiggled.

A5, A6 There was one Same Speaker and one Different speaker trial. For each trial:
  • In the first 2 seconds, two human cartoons appeared silently side-by-side

  • At the 2 second mark, one human made a sound and wiggles

  • At the 9 second mark, ferns descended. Then, either the same or different human made a sound and wiggled.

Test Phase
Trials Notes
B1-B4 Each set of four trials had:
B6-B9
  • Two Same Speaker and one Different speaker trial

  • Two High and two Low talker information trials

B11-B14
For each trial (see Figure 1):
  • In the first 2 seconds, two human cartoons appeared silently side-by-side

  • At the 2 second mark, one human made a sound.

  • At the 9 second mark, ferns descended. Then, either the same or different human made a sound.

B16-
B19
B5 Across the four animal trials, there were:
B15
  • Two Same speaker and two Different speaker trialsFor each trial:

  • In the first 2 seconds, two animal cartoons appeared silently side-by-side

  • At the 2 second mark, one animal made a sound.

  • At the 9 second mark, ferns descended. Then, either the same or different animal made a sound.

B20
B10