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  • Previous evidence for a peripheral attention deficit is limited by confounding factors.

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  • To re-investigate how stimuli at different visual eccentricities compete for attentional resources.
  • To determine the impact of simultaneous versus sequential presentation on attentional allocation.

Main Methods:

  • Human observers were presented with two equally relevant visual stimuli (orientations or colors) at varying eccentricities.
  • Stimuli were presented either sequentially (low competition) or simultaneously (high competition).
  • Participants reported the stimuli using a continuous report scale to measure accuracy.

Main Results:

  • Attentional errors increased with visual eccentricity.
  • Errors significantly increased when stimuli were presented simultaneously, indicating greater attentional conflict.
  • Peripheral stimuli were disproportionately affected by attentional competition.

Conclusions:

  • In situations of attentional competition, information presented in the periphery is more likely to be overlooked.
  • These findings have implications for fundamental theories of visual attention and applied contexts requiring peripheral stimulus detection.