Figure 5.

Illustration of the stimulus sequence in Experiment 2. Participants had to report any digit they saw inside a square in a prespecified colour (e.g., orange). The selection cue was embedded in either (A) a single stream or (B) two streams. In every stream, the item immediately before and immediately after the selection cue appeared in exactly the same location (C) or in a different location (D). In the pre-cue digit only or post-cue digit only conditions (A–B; 20% of trials), only one digit appeared either before or after the selection cue. In the other trials (C–D; 80% of trials), two different digits appeared both before and after the selection cue.