An Individual Differences Approach to Temporal Integration and Order Reversals in the Attentional Blink Task.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The reduced ability to identify a second target when it is presented in close temporal succession of a first target is called the attentional blink (AB). Studies have shown large individual differences in AB task performance, where lower task performance has been associated with more reversed order reports of both targets if these were presented in direct succession. In order to study the suggestion that reversed order reports reflect loss of temporal information, in the current study, we investigated whether individuals with a larger AB have a higher tendency to temporally integrate both targets into one visual event by using an AB paradigm containing symbol target stimuli.

Methodology/principal findings

Indeed, we found a positive relation between the tendency t

SUBMITTER: Willems C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4882054 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature