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From: Early cortical facilitation for emotionally arousing targets during the attentional blink

Figure 1

Schematic of the experimental procedure. Each experimental trial contained a baseline period of distractors, varying in number, before T1 was presented as the first verb, shown in green on the computer screen. RSVP was effected by using on/off duty cycles of 50 ms (word) and 66 ms (blank screen), resulting in 116 ms per cycle and a presentation rate of 8.6 Hz. The number of intervening distractors between T1 and T2 was manipulated to yield three lag conditions: lag 2 (one intervening distractor; see the present example), lag 4 (three intervening distractors), and lag 6 (five intervening distractors). Participants were asked to indicate which green words they had seen at the end of the trial, using a computer keyboard and a microphone. The example trial shown here illustrates a trial with lag 2, the first target being "messen" (to measure) and T2 being "foltern" (to torture).

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