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This study provided multiple convergent measures of processing in an attentional paradigm employing no extraneous noise by joining two information processing paradigms (leading indicator and cost/benefit) in a design maximally receptive to latency-operating characteristic (LOC) analyses. Data obtained provided evidence that visual selective attention can occur in the absence of extraneous noise in the visual field. Though latencies to targets following both positionally valid and invalid cues in the cost/benefit paradigm dropped identically across longer time intervals between the cue and the target, accuracy and confidence rating data suggest that processing differs between the two conditions. Further, the slopes of regressions on LOC's under the valid cue condition systematically increased as the time interval between the cue and the target increased; LOC slopes under the invalid cue condition decreased as cue-to-target time increased. 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