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  • Cognitive psychology
  • Neuroscience

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  • Simultaneous masking involves flanking elements hindering visual target performance.
  • Previous research primarily used discrimination thresholds, suggesting target-flanker grouping is key.
  • Recent studies indicate error rates in speeded tasks mirror threshold results.

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  • To investigate the relationship between thresholds, error rates, and response times in simultaneous masking.
  • To determine if response times offer insights into low-level visual processes.
  • To examine masking strength across a wide range of mask layouts.

Main Methods:

  • Speeded classification task using a vernier target.
  • Systematic variation of simultaneous mask layouts.
  • Measurement of discrimination thresholds, error rates, and response times.

Main Results:

  • Thresholds and error rates showed a strong association in quantifying masking strength.
  • Response times generally followed the same pattern but to a lesser extent.
  • Masking strength appears to be driven by target-flanker grouping.

Conclusions:

  • Discrimination thresholds and error rates are reliable indicators of simultaneous masking strength.
  • Response times provide a complementary, though less sensitive, measure.
  • The findings support the role of perceptual grouping over low-level interactions in simultaneous masking.