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Abstract

Visual sensitivity can be heightened in the vicinity of an appropriate pre-cue. Experiments with multiple, non-informative pre-cues suggest that this facilitation should not be attributed to focal attention. The number of simultaneously appearing pre-cues seems to be irrelevant; contrast thresholds are lowest for targets that appear in a pre-cued position. Here, we report that pre-cues become less effective when they and the target are delivered to different eyes. We conclude that the mechanism responsible for heightened sensitivity has largely monocular input.

Publication Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
Subjects:	R Medicine > RE Ophthalmology
Departments:	School of Health & Psychological Sciences > Optometry & Visual Sciences
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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