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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Appl. 2010 Mar;16(1):10.1037/a0018629. doi: 10.1037/a0018629

Table 1.

Experimental Parameters and Accuracy Data for Experiments 1–10

Experimental parameters Accuracy (%)


Experiment Time limit Prevalence
high:low
Trial type
counts
Low single Low dual Low-single vs.
Low-dual
SOS effect:
SOS?
1 15 s 1:1 High: 50 60.40 (12.57) 63.09 (10.72) t(9) = 1.28
Low: 50 p = .23
High-Low: 50 d = −0.23
None: 100
2 15 s 2:1 High: 100 66.00 (16.22) 59.72 (16.62) t(9) = 3.18
Low: 50 p = .01
High-Low: 50 d = 0.38
None: 50
3 15 s 3:1 High: 120 72.50 (12.42) 60.76 (12.23) t(9) = 3.56
Low: 40 p < .01
High-Low: 40 d = 0.95
None: 50
4 30 s 2:1 High: 100 60.60 (17.26) 58.50 (19.59) t(9) = 1.07
Low: 50 p = .31
High-Low: 50 d = 0.11
None: 50
5 30 s 3:1 High: 120 60.50 (13.83) 55.64 (16.67) t(9) = 2.08 ~✔
Low: 40 p = .07
High-Low: 40 d = 0.32
None: 50
6 30 s 6:1 High: 150 68.00 (12.51) 57.90 (15.98) t(9) = 2.11 ~✔
Low: 25 p = .06
High-Low: 25 d = 0.70
None: 50
7 Luggage line (variable rate) 3:1 High: 96 74.07 (15.11) 73.08 (11.84) t(9) = 0.93
Low: 32 p = .38
High-Low: 32 d = 0.07
None: 40
8 Luggage line (constant rate) 3:1 High: 96 71.89 (12.77) 63.92 (15.11) t(9) = 3.21
Low: 32 p =. 01
High-Low: 32 d = 0.57
None: 40
9 30 s 1:1
Low-single:dual
Low: 100 78.17 (7.80) 76.75 (13.22) t(9) = 1.12
Low-Low: 100 p = .29
None: 50 d = 0.13
10 30 s 4:1
Low-single:dual
Low: 160 74.91 (8.70) 71.63 (5.43) t(9) = 3.10
Low-Low: 40 p = .01
None: 50 d = 0.45

Note. Accuracy reflects mean detection rates with standard deviations in parentheses; p-values represent 1-tailed t-tests of low-salience target accuracy in single vs. dual target trials.