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Experimental procedure: Example of the stimulus sequence corresponding to one trial. One of two intervals contained six Gabor patches presented around a fixation point with one ‘pop-out’ Gabor (circled for illustrative purposes). The other interval contained six identical Gabors. Participants were prompted to choose whether the pop-out Gabor was in the 1st or 2nd interval (perceptual task). They were then prompted to rate their confidence in their decision being correct from 1 to 6 (metacognitive task). The task consisted of 350 trials, split into five blocks of 70 trials with four breaks.

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