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From: The ventromedial prefrontal cortex is particularly responsive to social evaluations requiring the use of person-knowledge

Figure 3

Trial sequence for the actor–model fMRI task. Over the course of the experiment (i.e., two fMRI runs), participants evaluated 30 unique actors on attractiveness, 30 unique actors on body of work, and all 30 models on attractiveness. The silhouette presented here represents a picture of either an actor or model stimulus. Each run was split into three counterbalanced blocks, each of which began with a prompt indicating the evaluative dimension and the target type (e.g., “How attractive are these actors?”).

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