Fig. 1

Screenshots from the central-cued and peripheral-cued conditions of Experiment 1 (top) and Experiment 2 (bottom). In Experiment 1, subjects navigated in a virtual environment to find targets chests that were obscured by bushes. The chests were sometimes highlighted in red depending on their position and the attentional cueing condition. In the central-cued condition (top left), targets were highlighted when their direction was within 10° of the central direction and less than 50 m away. In the peripheral-cued condition (top right), targets were highlighted when they were at least 40° to the left or right of the center and less than 50 m away. In Experiment 2, subjects passively viewed simulated movement through an environment while performing dot-probe task. In the central-cued condition (bottom left), the superimposed dots appeared within 5° of the center of the display. In the peripheral-cued condition (bottom right), the dots appeared in an annulus between 20 and 30° from the center