Story Task or Sentence Processing Task

PI Name: Scott K Holland,PhD scott.Holland@cchmc.org

Areas: Bilateral STG and POT

Program: Mac Stim or CD

Durations: 5 min. 30 sec

Special Equipment: Headphones

Description: Stimulus blocks consist of short stories, each 30 seconds in duration, and read in a female voice. These stimulus blocks are interleaved with control blocks of 30-seconds each. Subjects are trained listen to each story so that they would be able to correctly answer questions about them after the scanning session ends. Performance on this passive listening task is evaluated on the basis of the scores achieved on the post-scan quiz.