Rapid performance improvement across short precue-target delays is most likely due to effects of attention and not masking from peripheral precues

Abstract Chastain (1992) suggested that the rapid increase in performance when a peripheral precue indicates a target location is due to masking of the target by the cue. Here, previously published data are summarized to show why we concluded that this is not true. In contrast, we concluded that this rise in accuracy is due to a buildup of attention resources at the target location prior to target onset.

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