Sentence examples for mask condition from inspiring English sources

In Question 3 of each experiment, we asked participants to guess whether they were in the Mask condition or the No Mask condition (2AFC).

For the High-realism mask condition, we used four masks in total.

Note that the distinction between Own-race and Other-race applies to the High-realism mask condition and the Real face condition, but does not apply to the Low-realism mask condition.

Comparing across experiments, Japanese viewers were somewhat more likely than UK participants to guess that they were in the Mask condition (rather than the No Mask condition), but this difference was not statistically significant.

Why might other-race viewers be especially inclined to guess that they are in the Mask condition?

In future studies, it would be interesting to isolate the information that leads viewers to guess that they are in the Mask condition.

For the Low-realism mask condition, we used two visually salient masks that covered the face only, rather than the whole head.

However, the Real face condition undermines this interpretation – for real faces, too, other-race viewers were disproportionately likely to guess that they were in the Mask condition.

In the no-mask condition, the gain of reactive saccades similarly decreased for both target durations.

In the no-mask condition, the circles array and four-dot mask were extinguished simultaneously (i.e., after the 13 ms presentation) and replaced with a blank screen.

To investigate if these differences could be explained only by the presence of the mask, we tested for these 15 and 50 ms durations a "no-mask" condition in which the jumped target was simply replaced by a blank image.