The attentional blink: A review of data and theory

• Published in: Attention, perception & psychophysics Vol. 71; no. 8; pp. 1683 - 1700
• Main Authors: Dux, Paul E., Marois, René
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer-Verlag 01.11.2009; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Activity levels. Psychomotricity; Attention; Attentional Blink; Behavioral Science and Psychology; Biological and medical sciences; Cognitive Psychology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Information Processing; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Perception; Psychological Theory; Psychology; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Reaction Time; Refractory Period, Psychological; Short Term Memory; Stimuli; Theory; Tutorial Reviews; Vigilance. Attention. Sleep; Vision; Visual Environment; Repetition Blindness; Attentional Blink Magnitude; Rapid Serial Visual Presentation; Stimulus Onset Asynchrony; Attentional Blink; Attentional blink; Human; Theory; Vision; Perception; Cognition; Review; Visual attention

Under conditions of rapid serial visual presentation, subjects display a reduced ability to report the second of two targets(Target2; T2) in a stream of distractors if it appearswithin200-500 msec of Target 1 (Tl). This effect. known as the attentional blink(AB),has been central in characterizing th...