Figure 2.

The examples of everyday actions stimuli and N400 ERPs. On the left side of the figure, frames taken from movie clips are shown. The first two illustrate context and the third one illustrates the congruous (e.g., a man uses an electric iron to press wrinkles from his pants) or the incongruous (e.g., a man uses a fork to iron his pants) final ending. On the right side of the figure, the waveforms of the ERPs time-locked to the incongruous final movie scenes are compared to ERPs time-locked to congruous final scenes at representative electrode sites. The data were taken from Sitnikova et al. (2003, 2008).