Shine-through: temporal aspects

If a vernier stimulus precedes a grating for a very short time, the vernier either remains invisible, but may bequeath some of its properties to the g rating (feature inheritance), or might shine through keeping its features - depending on the number of grating elements [Herzog, M. H. & Koch, C., 200 1. Seeing properities of an invisible element: feature inheritance and shin e-through. Proceedings of the Natlional Academy of Science USA 98, 4271-427 5]. Feature inheritance and shine-through represent two different states of feature binding [Herzog, M. H., Koch, C., & Fahle, M., Switching binding s tates. Visual Cognition (in press)], whereas shine-through depends in subtl e ways on the spatial layout of the grating [Herzog, M. H., Fahle, M., & Ko ch, C., (2001). Spatial aspects of object formation revealed by a new illus ion, shine-through. Vision Research]. Here, we show that also temporal para meters of the grating influence shine-through. For example, a delayed prese ntation of certain grating elements can deteriorate performance dramaticall y. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.