Cheal (1993) misinterprets my original article (Chastain 1992b) as sug
gesting that any difference in initial attention effects with peripher
al and central precues is due to lateral masking with the former. Inst
ead, my article dealt with the influence of lateral masking on the app
arent time course of attention build-up with the two types of precue,
after attention effects become evident with each.