Fig. 2.

Event sequence and test trial for the critical Featural Continuity event. Children either saw a bag that already contained a doll inside (such that the hidden doll made a visible bulge in the bag), then saw a green doll placed into the bag and an orange doll removed (Expected outcome), or saw an empty bag and then saw the green doll placed inside and an orange doll removed (Violation outcome). The experimenter then taught children a novel verb to describe the action. In the test trial, children were presented with the bag from the critical event and the containers from the preceding filler events and were probed on the novel verb from the critical event.