Cueing animations: Dynamic signaling aids information extraction and comprehension

► Relational event unit cueing superior to entity cueing for animation understanding. ► Relational event unit cueing foster attention direction on relevant information. ► Eye tracking time locked measures showed partial obedience to cues. ► Cues are cognitive opportunities not prescriptive form of processing guidance. ► Results are in line with the Animation Processing Model (Lowe & Boucheix, 2008).