Physical offset of an invisible object can recover visual awareness suppressed by motion-induced blindness(Summary of Awarded Presentation at the 26th Annual Meeting)

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We investigated whether the physical offset of an invisible stimulus could result in the recovery of visual awareness suppressed by motion-induced blindness, in which a target stimulus surrounded by motion distractors often subjectively disappears. Participants were presented with two objects (a target object embedded in an outlined object) that were close to each other. When the two objects disappeared simultaneously, the physical offset of only the outlined object led to the recovery of visual awareness of the target object. Here, we report the basic effect, its spatiotemporal properties, and its relationship with the offset detection of the invisible object.