Delayed foveal and parafoveal masks disrupt peripheral target processing

Visual perception arises from the interplay of the fast, feedforward sweep of information processing and a slower, recurrent processing that refines and stabilizes perceptual representations. In this study, we investigated how foveal and parafoveal masks, aimed to disrupt re-entrant visual processing, interact with peripherally presented vernier targets. Participants performed a vernier discrimination task, in which the target was followed by a mask presented at various spatial locations and sti