Mean recognition task accuracy for Experiments 1 and 2.

<p>Gray bar: results from Experiment 1 where there was no central fixation task. Recognition accuracy was not significantly different from chance performance, 51.32%±4.03%, <i>t</i>(11) = 0.3079, <i>p</i> = 0.7639. Black bar: results for test scenes presented behind black distractor letters in the target detection task in Experiment 2. Recognition accuracy was again not significantly different from chance performance, 52.49%±1.66%, <i>t</i> = 0.5951, <i>p</i> = 0.5638. White bar: results for scenes presented concurrently with white target letters in the target detection task in Experiment 2. Recognition accuracy was 67.21%±3.82%. A paired-samples <i>t</i> test revealed a significant difference between recognition task accuracy for test scenes that had been previously presented with black distractor letters versus white target letters, suggesting that scenes presented concurrently with white target letters were remembered better, <i>t</i>(10) = 2.746, <i>p</i> = 0.021. Error bars represent s.e.m. (*<i>p</i><0.05).