In a classification task that required 9 undergraduates to make speeded decisions about the orientation of foveally and peripherally presented single lines, no evidence was found for an ‘oblique effect.' This supports the recent suggestion by Essock that the oblique effect is difficult to demonstrate in tasks involving stimulus encodings and memory, e.g., a classification task.
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