Supporting Information S1 - Emotional Modulation of the Attentional Blink Is Awareness-Dependent

A separate objective forced-choice experiment was carried out to ensure that the awareness level of emotional faces could be successfully manipulated by current masking parameters (e.g., the duration of the target and mask stimuli) used for main experiments. The d′ measures were computed for each individual. The result revealed that subjects' awareness of the fearful faces was prevented (or restricted) by using a 30-ms presentation of a target-mask SOA (masked condition) and was unrestricted when the fearful faces were presented as briefly as 50 ms (unmasked condition).
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