Three experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of the luminance level of a pre-/post-exposure field and onset sequence of a post-exposure field on briefly exposed visual stimuli for 13 male and 13 female undergraduate college students. Results showed that identification of a briefly exposed informational test stimulus as well as masking effects (the minimum interval between an informational test stimulus and non-informational backward visual noise mask) were both influenced by the luminance of the pre-exposure field and onset sequence of the post-exposure field.
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