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When disk-followed-by-ring stimulus pairs are presented in a continuous, recycling sequence, the amount of masking of the disk depends on the intercycle interval (ICI) as well as the interstimulus interval (ISI). As ICI increases, masking increases until ICI reaches about 350 msec. Thereafter, successive pairs appear to be independent of each other. Maximum masking occurs at a stimulus onset asynchrony of about 90 msec, regardless of ICI. When ICI is relatively small, it becomes possible to organize the pairs into ring-followed-by-disk, and there is little or no masking. Temporal organization takes precedence over masking.
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Kristofferson, A.B., Kowalik, P.A. Stimulus recycling and ring–disk masking. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 26, 40–42 (1988). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334855
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