Figure 1
From: Reduced processing of afforded actions while observing mental content as ongoing mental phenomena
(A) One of the two pairs of stimuli used in our study. For a particular run, we presented the red grating image in one eye (middle) and a green image with objects in the other eye (colours counterbalanced across eyes over the runs). In one half of the runs, the object image was in a high-affordance configuration (left) where the two objects were oriented towards each other in a way that implied action. In the other half of the runs, the objects were in a low-affordance configuration (right) where the same objects were oriented in a way that did not imply action. Participants were instructed to respond if they saw the red image, the green image or a mixture of the images. (B) The study involved two blocks, baseline (BL) and open monitoring mindfulness (OM). The blocks were counterbalanced across participants within both groups. For the BL and OM blocks there were two sub-blocks of eight 80-s binocular rivalry runs preceded by a 7-min silence and meditation period respectively.
