Carolin,
> what should I focus on when comparing the results from different basis functions?
I assume that you're referring to the individual level analysis. For the result with TENT per condition (or task), in the output from 3dDeconvolve/3dREMLfit you should have a t-stat for each tent and an F-stat for the overall shape of the hemodynamic response. You can compare the two modeling approaches (TENT vs. GAM) by pitting the statistical inference based on the F-stat from TENT against the t-stat from GAM.
Gang