News Finding: "If language affects performance on a test like this, it indicates that language is influencing vision at a pretty early stage.
Paper Finding: *This hit rate is substantially higher than the 50% QUEST threshold to which the staircasing procedure was set because participants' performance tends to improve during the course of the experiment.
News Context: "Unless they can tell us they saw it, there's nothing to suggest the brain was taking it in at all," Lupyan says. "If language affects performance on a test like this, it indicates that language is influencing vision at a pretty early stage. It's getting really deep into the visual system."
Paper Context: A weak bottom-up signal combined with the top-down signal produced by the label may be sufficient to propel the percept into awareness. *This hit rate is substantially higher than the 50% QUEST threshold to which the staircasing procedure was set because participants' performance tends to improve during the course of the experiment. The mean hit-rate for no-label trials during the start of the experimental session (first 20 trials) was not significantly different from 50%, t < 1.