Fang Fang’s group used the double-rectangle cuing paradigm (J Exp Psychol Gen 123: 161–177, 1994) and the low-contrast rectangles which are presented very briefly to render them invisible to subjects. They found that object-based attention can be guided by an invisible object in an automatic way, with a minimal influence from high-level top-down control.
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