Fig. 1: Experimental design of our story generation task.
From: Neural dynamics of semantic control underlying generative storytelling
a Graphical representation of the underlying generative process in the semantic space among the three different conditions, namely the Ordinary (green), Creative (pink), and Random (blue) conditions. Participants were instructed to modulate the appropriateness and novelty of the story, given three target words. Orange dots represent the target words, while black dots stand for the other words composing the story. b Examples of generated stories sampled from different participants given the same triplet of target words (bolded orange). c Graphical depiction of the experimental paradigm. Each condition was composed by 8 trials (stories) in a block fashion. The order of conditions, as well as the assignment of the target words to the conditions, was counterbalanced across participants. d Time course of a single trial, composed of 4 different stages. Crucially, the ideation period is separated from the period in which participants had to report the story.
