Fig. 6: Dimensions of animacy and EEG time course.

a Mean decoding curve across 19 participants (pairwise stimuli decoding using a support vector machine approach). Significant decoding is indicated by a horizontal line above the graph (one-sided Wilcoxon signed-rank test, p < 0.05 corrected) and starts at 43 ms (+/−2 ms, standard error) with a peak latency of 197 ms (+/−7 ms, standard error, indicated by an arrow). The shaded area around the lines shows the standard error of the mean based on single-participant decoding. The grey horizontal bar on the x axis indicates the stimulus duration. b Animacy dimension RDM comparison with EEG RDMs across time. Lines show the correlation between the EEG RDMs and each animacy dimension RDM. A significant correlation is indicated by a horizontal line above the graph (one-sided Wilcoxon signed-rank test, p < 0.05 corrected). The grey horizontal bar on the x-axis indicates the stimulus duration. c Unique variance of each animacy dimension in explaining EEG RDMs computed using a GLM. For each animacy dimension, the unique variance is computed by subtracting the total variance explained by the reduced GLM (excluding the animacy dimension of interest) from the total variance explained by the full GLM, using non-negative least squares to find optimal weights. A significant unique variance (between 237 and 301 ms) is indicated by a horizontal line above the graph (one-sided Wilcoxon signed-rank test, p < 0.05 corrected). The grey horizontal bar on the x axis indicates the stimulus duration.