Beyond the attentional blink: visual masking by object substitution

If 2 targets are to be identified among distractors displayed in rapid sequence, correct identification of the 1st target hinders identification of the 2nd. To obtain this attentional blink (AB), the 1st target must be masked with a simultaneous (integration) or a delayed (interruption) mask indiffe...

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Published inJournal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance Vol. 24; no. 5; p. 1454
Main Authors Giesbrecht, B, Di Lollo, V
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.10.1998
Subjects
Adult
Analysis of Variance
Attention - physiology
Discrimination (Psychology) - physiology
Female
Humans
Male
Memory, Short-Term - physiology
Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology
Perceptual Masking - physiology
Time Factors
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Summary:If 2 targets are to be identified among distractors displayed in rapid sequence, correct identification of the 1st target hinders identification of the 2nd. To obtain this attentional blink (AB), the 1st target must be masked with a simultaneous (integration) or a delayed (interruption) mask indifferently. In 3 experiments, it was shown that the 2nd target must also be masked, but that the precise form of masking is important: An AB occurs with interruption but not with integration masking. This nonequivalence of masking paradigms parallels that found in studies of masked priming, a phenomenon arguably related to the AB. The results are explained by a revised 2-stage model (M. M. Chun & M. C. Potter, 1995).
ISSN:0096-1523
DOI:10.1037/0096-1523.24.5.1454