The Attentional Blink Reveals the Probabilistic Nature of Discrete Conscious Perception
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Attention and awareness are two tightly coupled processes that have been the subject of the same enduring debate: Are they allocated in a discrete or in a graded fashion? Using the attentional blink paradigm and mixture-modeling analysis, we show that awareness arises at central stages of information processing in an all-or-none manner. Manipulating the temporal delay between two targets affected subjects’ likelihood of consciously perceiving the second target, but did not affect the precision of its representation. Furthermore, these results held across stimulus categories and paradigms, and they were dependent on attention having been allocated to the first target. The findings distinguish the fundamental contributions of attention and awareness at central stages of visual cognition: Conscious perception emerges in a quantal manner, with attention serving to modulate the probability that representations reach awareness.
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- Authors
- Asplund, C. L., Fougnie, D., Zughni, S., Martin, J. W., & Marois, R.
- Affiliations
- Yale-NUS College (SG)
- Harvard University (US)
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- Brown University (US)
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2014-01-16
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 824-831
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- PMC
- PMC3954951
- OpenAlex
- W2158578181
- Cited by
- 92
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 3
- FWCI
- 4.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Vanderbilt University
- Association for Psychological Science
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH70776, R01MH070776)
- National Eye Institute (P30EY008126)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Keywords
- attentional blink, conscious perception, attention, awareness, mixture models, time delay, visual perception
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Awareness, Cognition, Consciousness, Female, Humans, Male, Probability, Psychomotor Performance, Attentional Blink, Young Adult
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