Figure 4: Shot content properties correlated with performance.

(A–H, L–R) Performance for movie shots depending on whether the corresponding content was present or not in the shot (mean ± SEM across subjects). For example, subplot (A) indicates the percentage correct in shots where there was no action (“No”) compared to those shots where there was action (“Yes”). The content was manually annotated for each shot by an independent set of subjects who did not participate in the recognition memory study. The definition of each of the content variables is described in the Methods section (see also Tables S2 and S3). (I–K) Mean ± SEM values for the number of characters (I), number of frames (J) and number of objects (K) for shots with correct performance (Corr) versus incorrect performance (Inc). In all subplots, “**” denotes p < 0.01 (Bonferroni corrected permutation test).