Delayed attentional engagement in the attentional blink
Delayed attentional engagement in the attentional blink
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DOI:
10.1037/0096-1523.31.6.1463
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发表时间:
2005-12-01
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
Hooge, ITC
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作者:
Nieuwenstein, MR;Chun, MM;Hooge, ITC
Observers often miss the 2nd of 2 visual targets (first target [T1] and second target [T2]) when these targets are presented closely in time; the attentional blink (AB). The authors hypothesized that the AB occurs because the attentional response to T2 is delayed by T1 processing, causing T2 to lose a competition for attention to the item that follows it. The authors investigated this hypothesis by determining whether the AB is attenuated when T2 is precued. The results from 4 experiments showed that the duration and magnitude of the AB were substantially reduced when T2 was precued. The observed improvement in T2 report did not occur at the expense of T l report, suggesting that processing of T I was already completed or was at least protected when the cue was presented. The authors conclude that, during the AB, there is a delay between detection and the selection of target candidates for consolidation in short-term memory.