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Retro-cue alerting effects on conscious perception across different levels of target visibility.

Psychological Research October 9, 2026 Pablo Rodríguez-San Esteban, Mariagrazia Capizzi, José Andrés González-López et al.

Can alerting retro-cues improve the conscious perception of stimuli that would otherwise remain unseen? While pre-stimulus alerting is known to facilitate conscious access, the effects of retro-cues remain ambiguous due to methodological confounds in existing literature. Specifically, most studies finding retro-cue benefits have relied on spatial features (such as lateralized targets or cues),...