Figure 1
Depicted are the conceptual differences regarding the oculomotor progressions for each of our trial types. The further to the right the target is in the figure, the longer is the expected response time in the respective trials. Please note Fig. 2 to see how the individual visual displays have looked like. We used four different trial types: (A) Neutral trials: no distractor was presented and attention can directly be allocated from the fixation item in the center (where participants fixated at the start of each trial) to the target item in the periphery, (B) Disengagement trials S: a distractor item that looked like the salient distractor item was presented in the center; (C) Disengagement trials T: a distractor item that looked like the target item was presented in the center, also; (D) capture trials: the usual capture trials in which attention (often) gets captured by the salient distractor item in the periphery at first and is subsequently allocated to the target item.
