Procedure and stimuli.

<p>a) Schematic of the overall procedure. b) Example of a set of famous and newly learned faces with corresponding stories containing affective biographical information. Faces within a set were matched for gender, age, and race, and fictitious stories for newly learned faces were constructed in analogy to the real biographical stories for the famous faces in an attempt to match valence, arousal, etc. Please note that the assignment of faces to stories was fixed for famous faces but counterbalanced for newly learned faces. c) Examples of famous and newly learned faces presented during CFS. d) Schematic of an example b-CFS trial. A face photograph was gradually introduced to one eye. To render the face target invisible for the first seconds of a trial through interocular suppression, CFS masks updated at 10 Hz were presented to the other eye. The contrast of the CFS masks was slowly ramped down over the course of each trial. Participants indicated as quickly and accurately as possible on which side of fixation the target or any part of the target became visible.