Figure 1.
Stimuli and sequence of events for a single trial in Experiment 1. Each trial started with an isoluminant red fixation mark and two peripheral squares. An arrow (the cue) followed, instructing observers which side to attend. Next, the Ts and disks appeared simultaneously and the Ts rotated for 6 sec. The distances of the disks from each T were varied to derive the attentional window size. Each distance was kept constant during a block of 56 trials and varied randomly across different blocks. Cue direction, the side at which the bright and dark disks appeared, and target-disks distances varied randomly within a block.