Fig. 2: Behavioural results for the RSVP task in Experiment 1.

a The distribution of response errors (difference between presented and reported orientation) across participants (N = 22) for the first (T1, blue lines) and second (T2, red lines) target for each Lag condition. The line shows fitted four-parameter Gaussian function. b Quantified behavioural responses for the four parameters of the fitted Gaussian function (see Supplementary Fig. 1) for each participant. Gain shows the amplitude, width shows the standard deviation of the function, centre orientation is the mean (which should be centred around 0° for unbiased estimates), and baseline is a constant parameter accounting for non-orientation selective responses which indicates guessing. Asterisks indicate Bonferroni-corrected t-tests showing significant differences at p < 0.05. c Regression results for the influence of distractors and targets on participants’ responses. Higher regression weights indicate that a given item’s orientation was more influential for determining the reported orientation. The dotted vertical lines indicate the position of the other target (colour matched). Consider, for example, the panel depicting Lag 2 results. For T1 report, T2 occurred at item plus 2 as indicated by the dotted blue line, whereas for T2 report, T1 occurred at item minus 2, as indicated by the dotted red line. Across all panels, error bars indicate ∓1 standard error of mean.