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Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research 2/2007

01-03-2007 | Original Article

Spreading the sparing: against a limited-capacity account of the attentional blink

Auteurs: Christian N. L. Olivers, Stefan van der Stigchel, Johan Hulleman

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 2/2007

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Abstract

The identification of the second of two targets presented in close succession is often impaired—a phenomenon referred to as the attentional blink. Extending earlier work (Di Lollo, Kawahara, Ghorashi, and Enns, in Psychological Research 69:191–200, 2005), the present study shows that increasing the number of targets in the stream can lead to remarkable improvements as long as there are no intervening distractors. In addition, items may even recover from an already induced blink whenever they are preceded by another target. It is shown that limited memory resources contribute to overall performance, but independent of the attentional blink. The findings argue against a limited-capacity account of the blink and suggest a strong role for attentional control processes that may be overzealously applied.
vorige artikel Task switching: on the origin of response congruency effects
volgende artikel Incidental task sequence learning: perceptual rather than conceptual?
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Metagegevens
Titel
Spreading the sparing: against a limited-capacity account of the attentional blink
Auteurs
Christian N. L. Olivers
Stefan van der Stigchel
Johan Hulleman
Publicatiedatum
01-03-2007
Uitgeverij
Springer-Verlag
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 2/2007
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-005-0029-z

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