Color Can Shorten Breakthrough Times in Continuous Flash Suppression through Increased Salience and Task Relevance.

ABSTRACT: Color can enhance the perception of relevant stimuli by increasing their salience and guiding visual search towards stimuli that match a task-relevant color. Using Continuous Flash Suppression (CFS), the current study investigated whether color facilitates the discrimination of targets that are difficult to perceive due to interocular suppression. Gabor patterns of two or four cycles per degree (cpd) were shown as targets to the non-dominant eye of human participants. CFS masks were presented at a rate of 10 Hz to the dominant eye, and participants had the task to report the target's orientation as soon as they could discriminate it. The 2-cpd targets were robustly suppressed and resulted in much longer response times compared to 4-cpd targets. Moreover, only for 2-cpd targets, two color-r

SUBMITTER: Valuch C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8006049 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature