Attentional Episodes in Visual Perception

• Published in: Journal of experimental psychology. General Vol. 140; no. 3; pp. 488 - 505
• Main Authors: Wyble, Brad, Potter, Mary C, Bowman, Howard, Nieuwenstein, Mark
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Psychological Association 01.08.2011
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Adults; Attention; Attention - physiology; Attention Control; Attentional Blink - physiology; College Students; Computer Simulation; Humans; Memory, Short-Term - physiology; Models, Psychological; Photic Stimulation; Reaction Time - physiology; Time; Visual Perception; Visual Perception - physiology

Is one's temporal perception of the world truly as seamless as it appears? This article presents a computationally motivated theory suggesting that visual attention samples information from temporal episodes (episodic simultaneous type/serial token model; Wyble, Bowman, & Nieuwenstein, 2009...