Participants actively constructed narratives with systematically manipulated abstract event features to investigate how such abstract event features contribute to updating situation models (2/2)

We discovered a North-South schema code in the thalamus, pallidum, caudate, posterior medial cortex, hippocampus, parahippocampus, fusiform gyrus, inferior and superior temporal regions, temporal pole, superior frontal regions and a sequence (i.e., path) code in postcentral gyrus. (6/8)

A key feature of the design is that it allowed us to separately measure, on a per-wedding basis, neural codes relating to the North/South schema, specific sequences (paths), the preceding ritual, and the current ritual. (5/8)

Participants had to learn through experience that the transition structure of the ritual sequences was determined by whether the couple was from the North or South of an Island. (4/8)

Participants viewed computer-animated videos of weddings, where the weddings were composed of sequences of made-up rituals. Weddings also included unique episodic details that participants were asked to recall later. (3/8)