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The Attentional Blink provides Episodic Distinctiveness: Sparing at a Cost

Wyble, Brad, Bowman, Howard, Nieuwenstein, Mark (2008) The Attentional Blink provides Episodic Distinctiveness: Sparing at a Cost. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, . ISSN 0096-1523. (doi:10.1037/a0013902) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:23974)

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0013902

Abstract

The Attentional Blink (Raymond et al 1992) refers to a surprising temporal gap in our ability to see a target if it follows a prior target. Theoretical and computational work has provided a variety of explanations for the blink, but more recent data have challenged these accounts by showing the blink is strongly attenuated when subjects encode entire strings of targets (Nieuwenstein & Potter, 2006, Olivers et al 2007, Kawahara et al 2007) or are distracted (Olivers & Nieuwenstein 2005). In this paper, we describe the Episodic Simultaneous Type Serial Token (eSTST) model of encoding items into working memory as visual tokens. This model is composed of neurobiologically plausible neural elements and suggests that the attentional blink is the result of a mechanism that creates episodically distinct representations within working memory. The model also addresses the phenomenon of repetition blindness and whole report superiority, producing predictions which are supported by experimental work.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1037/a0013902
Additional information: (accepted subject to minor revisions)
Uncontrolled keywords: Attentional Blink, Temporal Attention, Working Memory, Computational model, Visual Attention
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited: 29 Mar 2010 12:09 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:02 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/23974 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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