Fig. 1

Visual representation of the RSVP task used in Experiment 1. Participants viewed a stream of filler images of objects presented at a rate of 70 ms per image with a fruit target image and a critical distractor preceding the target. Following each trial, participants used their mouse to select the fruit image they saw from an array of other fruit images. The right side of the figure shows examples of critical distractors from the Houston, Harvey, neutral, unpleasant, and baseline valence conditions. The unpleasant and neutral distractors presented in this figure are not part of the IAPS images that were used in the actual experiment because of constraints on the public dissemination of IAPS images. The IAPS images used in the neutral and unpleasant conditions depicted humans both close-up (such as the unpleasant image depicted here) and further away (such as the neutral image depicted here). The trial stream here depicts a Harvey lag 2 trial