Figure 2.
(A) A trial started when a fixation-cross appeared. The stimulus array was presented until response, followed by a feedback display signifying the amount of reward or punishment obtained on the current trial. (B) All possible trial types relative to the example trial type in panel (A). Each type was equally likely and the amount of reward was not related to trial type or any other task attribute. Note that the main hypothesis is tested by calculating the means of trials where the irrelevant singleton was present on the current trial, but absent on the previous (n-1) trial. The target is always shown as a low spatial frequency singleton in the western position. Targets could also be high spatial frequency singletons, among low-frequency ones, and were equally likely to appear at any of the four positions. Stimuli are not drawn to scale. See Stimuli and apparatus for stimulus specifications.
