Figure 1.

Frames taken from video clips used in this study. A & B, sample video pair 1: Shown for each video type are two frames illustrating events depicted as a context (‘a man sets up an ironing board and places a pair of pants on it’), followed by a single frame illustrating the congruous final scene (A: ‘the man presses wrinkles from his pants with an electric iron’) and the incongruous final scene (B: ‘the man moves a dinner fork across his pants). Note the incongruous scene in B is an example of the less comprehensible incongruous event. C & D, sample video pair 2: for each video type are two frames illustrating events depicted as a context (‘a man places a cutting board on a kitchen counter, and then places a loaf of bread on the cutting board’), followed by a single frame illustrating the congruous final scene (C: ‘the man cuts off a piece of bread with a knife’) and the incongruous final scene (D: ‘the man slides an electric iron across the loaf of bread’). Note the incongruous scene in D is an example of the more comprehensible incongruous event. The actual video clips may be viewed at https://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/∼tatiana/movies.