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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank E. Wenger, A. Farnè, and E. Macaluso for precious advice;
E. Blini for help with parts of the statistical analyses; F. Lamberton
and D. Ibarrola for help with fMRI acquisitions and settings;
F. Leconte for graphic contribution to the figures; F. Volland for
realization of parts of the setup; the research assistants for helping
with the acquisitions; Quercetti for kindly providing the peg-board
games used in the scanner; and S. Alouche, J.-L. Borach, and
C. Farge for administrative support.Funding:C.B. is supported
by Swedish Research Council grants 2015-01717 and Agence
Nationale de le Recherche grant ANR-JC (ANR-16-CE28-0008-01).
M.L. is supported by Swedish Research Council grant 2018-01047.
A.C.R. is supported by ANR-16-CE28-0015. A.C.R. and
V.B. are supported by LabEx ASLAN grants ANR-10-LABX-0081
and ANR-11-IDEX-0007.Author contributions:Conceptualization
and methodology: S.T., M.L., V.B., A.C.R., and C.B. Software,
validation and formal analyses: S.T., R.S., E.K., C.B.; Material
and set-up: S.T., R.S., and E.K.; Investigation and data curation:
S.T., R.P., A.M.G., and C.B.; Original draft preparation and
visualization: S.T., V.B., A.C.R., and C.B.; Writing - review and editing: all
authors.Competing interests:The authors declare no competing
interests.Data and materials availability:Data, materials, and codes
for analyses are available athttps://osf.io/mw3pf/.SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS
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