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Previous demonstrations of the perceptual recovery of a retroactively masked visual target by a subsequent masking stimulus have not yet been alluded to in theories of backward masking, perhaps because such data seem inconsistent with current theory and because the effects reported so far have been relatively small. We report here a set of conditions that yield substantial recovery and also suggest an account of recovery derived from an inter- pretation of the masking theory of Breitmeyer and Ganz.
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Dember, W.N., Schwartz, M. & Kocak, M. Substantial recovery of a masked visual target and its theoretical interpretation. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 11, 285–287 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336832
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