Fig. 3.

Voxel-based analyses. (A) Voxel-based ISCs in the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes of the left-hemisphere are projected from a functional volume onto the surface of an inflated average brain in common (MNI) space. Each voxel is colored according to its TRW, defined as the most scrambled stimulus that, across participants, was still tracked significantly above chance (following the method in Lerner et al., 2011) (see legend in (B)). Note the progression from a short TRW (significant tracking of all stimuli, labeled in red), around the mid-posterior and mid-anterior temporal lobe, towards longer TRWs (yellow or green) in surrounding temporal areas, and finally to the frontal lobe (yellow, green, or blue). White contours mark the masks that were used for the main analysis (see Fig. 1), excluding the MFG. Small black contours surrounding faint colors mark a set of fROIs that was defined as an alternative to the main fROIs, by choosing the top 27 voxels in each mask showing the strongest pattern consistent with that mask’s TRWs as identified in the main analysis (see Fig. 2A). These voxels were chosen based on contrasting ISCs for the intact story to ISCs for each of the other stimuli, and relied on data from only the second half of each stimulus (unlike the coloring scheme in this panel, which is based on data from entire time-series of each stimulus and compared the ISCs of each stimulus against chance). (B) Cross-validated TRWs of the fROIs marked in (A), based on ISCs for data from only the first half of each stimulus. Conventions are the same as in Fig. 2.