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**Exclusion Criteria** Subject data will be excluded on the following grounds: * Subjects reported being under 18 years of age. * Subjects reported problems with experimental playback, such as stuttering, freezing (pre-determined options) or another issue specified in a free-response. A coder who is blind to the condition assignment will examine these open-ended responses to determine whether or not the subject should be excluded. When the response is ambiguous, their data will be excluded. * Subjects reported needing correction to their vision but not wearing it during the experiment. * Subjects reported counts that err by more than 50% in either direction more than once. * Subjects reported failing to notice the "unexpected object" after a full-attention trial or misidentified its shape or color. * Subjects reported having performed a similar task before, wherein they tracked multiple objects and something unexpected appeared. If subjects reported participating in a similar task, an independent coder will examine their descriptions of prior experience to determine whether the subject should be excluded. * Subjects failed to answer any question during the course of the experiment. **Measures** <br> After each trial in which no unexpected object appears and after the critical trial, we will collect subjects' counts of how many times the attended objects bounced off the edge of the frame. On the critical trial and the full-attention trial, we will ask whether subjects noticed an extra object on that trial, and then ask them to describe the shape and color from a menu of pre-determined options. Subjects will be counted as having noticed the object only if they affirm having seen something new and correctly identify either its shape, color, or both. <br> We will also collect a set of demographic data for exclusion purposes, as well as characterizing our sample. **Analysis** <br> The dual-filters account predicts a crossover in noticing rates between the two attention conditions. As such, we can conduct two tests: 1. Vertical bars should be noticed more than horizontal bars when subjects attend to the gray rectangles, as the more similar vertical bars should be enhanced relative to the less-similar horizontal bars. The difference in noticing rates (noticing vertical - noticing horizontal) should be positive. 2. Vertical bars should be noticed less often than horizontal bars when subjects ignore the gray rectangles, as the more more similar vertical bars should be suppressed more than the less similar horizontal bars. The difference in noticing rates (noticing vertical - noticing horizontal) should be negative. For each test, we will determine the difference in noticing rates for each condition and will compute a 95% confidence interval around that difference. If the difference score is positive for attending rectangles and negative for ignoring rectangles, it supports the dual-filters account. No difference in noticing rates between the two orientations in each condition suggests that the filter is insensitive to orientation when it is orthogonal to the critical feature. Other patterns would suggest other mechanisms at work.
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