Figure 5

Experimental sequence in Study 2. Each trial started with the presentation of a fixation cross and a task cue (the letter “B” represents one of the two presented task cues in this experiment, “R” and “B”), followed by a lexical decision task (LDT). The LDT consisted of a prime interval (forward mask 100 ms, prime 33.5 ms, backward mask 33.5 ms) and the LDT target (represented by the placeholders “prime” and “target”, respectively). The induction task was presented after the LDT and cued task sets were therefore required to be kept activated to a certain degree during the LDT (represented by the arrow). Therefore, induction task trials (upper row) and task cue-only trials (lower row) did not differ until the end of the LDT and were collapsed for statistical analysis.