2.1. Participants

We tested 21 German native speakers (seven male) and excluded one (male) participant from further analyses due to technical issues during acquisition, leaving 20 participants. Behavioral responses were not recorded in the logfile of one subject due to a technical malfunction and were thus not included in the behavioral analysis. However, as online monitoring of the subject during the experiment had indicated task engagement this participant was kept in the fMRI analysis.

All participants were right‐handed (as assessed by a German version of the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory (Oldfield, 1971), had normal or corrected‐to‐normal vision and no history of neurological impairments. The participants received compensation for their participation in the experiment and gave written informed consent before the study started. The study was approved by the internal review board of Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki.