Temporal Selection is Suppressed, Delayed, and Diffused During the Attentional Blink
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How does temporal selection work, and along what dimensions does it vary from one instance to the next? We explored these questions using a phenomenon in which temporal selection goes awry. In the attentional blink, subjects fail to report the second of a pair of targets (T1 and T2) when they are presented at stimulus onset asyn-chronies (SOAs) of roughly 200 to 500 ms. We directly tested the properties of temporal selection during the blink by analyzing distractor intrusions at a fast rate of item presentation. Our analysis shows that attentional selection is (a) suppressed, (b) delayed, and (c) diffused in time during the attentional blink. These effects are dissociated by their time course: The measure of each effect returns to the baseline value at a different SOA. Our results constrain theories of the attentional blink and indicate that temporal selection varies along at least three dissociable dimensions: efficacy, latency, and precision.
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- Authors
- Vul, E., Nieuwenstein, M., & Kanwisher, N.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2008-01
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 55-61
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- PMC
- PMC2744451
- OpenAlex
- W2141584469
- Cited by
- 89
- References
- 21
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- FWCI
- 3.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- Funders
- U.S. Public Health Service (13455)
- National Eye Institute (R01EY013455)
- 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, temporal selection, stimulus onset asynchrony, attentional suppression, selective attention, time course of attention
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Cues, Female, Humans, Inhibition, Psychological, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Probability, Reaction Time, Serial Learning, Time Perception, Attentional Blink
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