Timing parameters for the different versions of the language localizer task
| Version | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | |
| No. of participants | 35 | 5 | 5 |
| Task: passive reading or memory? | PR | M | M |
| Words/nonwords per trial | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| Trial duration, ms | 6000 | 6000 | 6000 |
| Fixation | 100 | — | — |
| Presentation of each word/nonword | 450 | 350 | 350 |
| Fixation | 500 | 300 | 300 |
| Memory probe | — | 1000 | 1000 |
| Fixation | — | 500 | 500 |
| Trials per block | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Block duration, s | 18 | 18 | 18 |
| Blocks per condition, per run | 8 | 8 | 6 |
| Conditions | Sentences | Sentences | Sentences |
| nonwords | nonwords | nonwords | |
| word-listsa | |||
| Fixation block duration, s | 14 | 18 | 18 |
| No. of fixation blocks | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| Total run time, s | 358 | 378 | 396 |
| No. of runs | 2 | 2 | 2–3 |
↵aUsed for the purposes of another experiment (Fedorenko et al., 2010).