Fig. 1

Event stimuli. Stills taken from each of the four experimental movies: a planting flowers, b balancing a checkbook, c setting up a game console, d installing a printer. The yellow box represents the interest area, which was drawn around the objects in the focus of the actor’s attention. These objects are critical for completion of the current goal. Participants did not see the yellow box while watching the videos. The size of the interest areas was controlled for in the eye movement analyses