The purpose of this study was controlling the facilitatory effect on target detection due to the distance between inducing fields and the duration of target presentation. The experiment was carried on with 2 experienced observers. It appeared that such an effect does exist for a distance of 1° 3′ between the active fields. However, it seems to be strongly related to a critical range of duration of target presentation.
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