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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Psychol. 2013 Sep 18;32(4):10.1007/s12144-013-9184-3. doi: 10.1007/s12144-013-9184-3

Table 1.

Overview of characteristics of each study

Study Trials Stimulus duration ISIa Experimental condition n
1 2 6 s/6 s 2 min Notice all that you can 243
2 4 2 s/4 s/6 s/8 s 2 min Extract as many details as possible 106
3 3 2 s/4 s/6 s 2 min Detect name of businesses and anything unusual 305
4 4 3 s/4 s/7 s/10 s 2 min Detect name of businesses and anything unusual 117
5 2 2 s/6 s 2 min Notice all that you can 109
Notice as many animate objects as possible, such as people 45
Notice as many inanimate objects as possible, such as stores or signs 50
Notice things that are unusual 42
6 2 2 s/6 s 2 min Notice as many animate objects as possible, such as people 83
Notice as many inanimate objects as possible, such as stores or signs 84
Notice as many things that are unusual 64
7 2 2 s/6 s 2 min Suicidal woman story prime 121
8 2 2 s/6 s 2 min Woman present→Woman absent 67
Woman absent→Woman present 68
Barber pole present→Barber pole absent 73
N=1,577
a

The ISI, or interstimulus interval, is the time between offset of one stimulus and onset of the next. During this time, participants were asked to list what they saw in the photograph.