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Academic English written proficiency was assessed using a task adapted from practice IELTS materials (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
The foundation of the focus group sessions was a specially designed scenario simulation task adapted from route invention task technique to elicit knowledge from train drivers [16].
A novel road map task adapted from previous research (Money, Alexander, & Walker, 1965) involved making egocentric turn judgments regarding a path plotted on a map (i.e. turn right/left).
To ensure specificity of OT effects to imitative behaviour, participants additionally performed a Stroop colour-word interference task (adapted to optimize similarities with the imitation inhibition task) to rule out general effects on cognitive control.
This task (adapted from Aron and colleagues) [1] was designed to minimize emotional and sensory carryover between trials.
This task, adapted from Fazio [35], determined the affective valence of our targets by measuring their ability to facilitate (as measured by reaction time, RT), or "prime" the correct identification of affect-congruent nouns presented immediately after the target.
In a version of the task adapted for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), reliable activation was found in the midbrain, anterior insula, striatum, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, medial frontal cortex, and anterior cingulate during active risk taking.
In Experiment 1B, one group of non-blinkers and a group of blinkers (who do show a substantial AB) were tested using an AB task adapted from Potter and colleagues [11], containing pictures rather than the more commonly used alphanumeric stimuli, in order to test the generality of the non-blinkers' remarkable ability.
Episodic memory (recognition and recall) was assessed by a task adapted from the Child Memory Scale [ 38].
