If the participant determined left, they pressed the left mouse button, and if right, they pressed the right mouse button.
In the Hands Away condition, participants responded by pressing the left mouse button for a Threat Present response with the left thumb and pressed the right mouse button for a Threat Absent response with the right thumb.
In case the subject experienced within this initial time period a mental impasse or mental block (which we described as "you feel that you cannot proceed" or "you just don't know what else to think of"), she/he pressed the right mouse button as soon as she/he reached this state.
The children sat at a comfortable distance from the screen and used left and right thumb to press the left or the right mouse button, corresponding to a left and right pointing fish.
In both tasks, the left mouse button was pressed with the middle finger, and the right mouse button was pressed with the index finger of the left hand.
Half of the participants were instructed to press the left mouse button to words and the right mouse button to pseudowords (reversed response mapping for remaining participants).
