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The attentional blink: Resource depletion or temporary loss of control?

Di Lollo, Vincent, Kawahara, Jun-ichiro, Shahab Ghorashi, S.M., Enns, James T.·2005·Psychological Research
DOI 10.1007/s00426-004-0173-x
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Identification of the second of two targets is impaired if it is presented less than about 500 ms after the first. Theoretical accounts of this second-target deficit, known as attentional blink (AB), have relied on some form of limited attentional resource that is allocated to the leading target at the expense of the trailing target. Three experiments in the present study reveal a failure of resource-limitation accounts to explain why the AB is absent when the targets consist of a stream of three items belonging to the same category (e.g., letters or digits). The AB is reinstated, however, if an item from a different category is inserted in the target string. This result, and all major results in the AB literature, is explained by the hypothesis that the AB arises from a temporary loss of control over the prevailing attentional set. This lapse in control renders the observer vulnerable to an exogenously-triggered switch in attentional set.

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Authors
Di Lollo, V., Kawahara, J.-I., Shahab Ghorashi, S. M., & Enns, J. T.
Affiliations
  • Hiroshima University (JP)
  • University of British Columbia (CA)
ORCID
Venue
Psychological Research
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2004-04-29
Volume
69
Issue
3
Pages
191-200
ISSN
  • 0033-3026 (ISSN-L)
  • 0340-0727
  • 1430-2772
DOI
10.1007/s00426-004-0173-x
OpenAlex
W2145369538
Cited by
448
References
30
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 34 · 2014: 22 · 2013: 31 · 2012: 35
FWCI
8.06
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • Psychological Research (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
Keywords
attentional blink, attentional set, attentional control, temporal attention, target identification
MeSH terms
Analysis of Variance, Attention, British Columbia, Humans, Models, Psychological, Perceptual Masking, Visual Perception

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