Figure 1.

Self-other processing task block-design. The self-other processing task consisted of 15 blocks of 20 s each, interspersed by 12-s blocks of rests. During “Self” blocks, participants were instructed to think about themselves and answer “yes” or “no” to indicate whether the adjective displayed on the screen applies to them or not. During “Other” blocks, participants were instructed to think about one person they know and then answer “yes” or “no” to indicate whether the adjective displayed on the screen applies to that person. During “Uppercase” blocks, which served as a control condition, subjects were instructed to press “yes” if the displayed word was in uppercase, and “no” if it was in lowercase.