The linebacker hated the quarterback?
The experiment was designed with Psychopy 3.0.6 (Peirce et al., 2019) and presented via a 24-inch monitor. Subjects were seated in front of a monitor, the eye-monitor distance was 50 cm, and the stimuli were presented at the center of the screen. The answers were collected via keyboard response. The study was carried out in a silent and dimly lit room.
The experiment began with a 30-second (s) long baseline recording, followed by subjects pressing a key to start the experiment. A plus sign (‘+’) was presented on the screen for 500 ms before each trial. A randomly chosen sentence was presented on the screen for 4.5 seconds. Subsequently, the question was shown for 3 seconds, within which the subjects had to give their answers. There was a rest period between trials and the inter-stimulus interval was set randomly between 7-10 seconds to prevent the subjects’ anticipatory hemodynamic activity (Fig. 2).