Fig. 4
From: Early or late distractions hurt working memory differently depending on how long you look
Schematic trial structure of the change detection task used in Experiment 2. There are five distraction conditions: no distraction, full distraction with orientation stimuli, full distraction with face stimuli, delay distraction with orientation stimuli, and delay distraction with face stimuli. Each trial began with a fixation display, followed by a memory array of three red arrows (targets), presented either briefly (200 ms) or for a longer duration (1000 ms). After the memory array, distractors (either blue arrows or grayscale face images from the CFAPS database46) appeared during the delay period depending on the condition. In full distraction conditions, distractors were presented during both the memory array and the delay interval. In delay-only conditions, distractors were presented only during the delay phase. No distractors were shown in the baseline condition. A probe arrow then appeared, and participants judged whether the probe arrow matched the orientation of the original target at the same location.The bottom panel provides close-up examples of the two distractor types (orientation vs. face) used in the task.
