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- Title
Repetition blindness is immune to the central bottleneck.
- Authors
Paul E. Dux; René Marois
- Abstract
The attentional blink (AB) and repetition blindness (RB) phenomena refer to subjects' impaired ability to detect the second of two different (AB) or identical (RB) target stimuli in a rapid serial visual presentation stream if they appear within 500 msec of one another. Despite the fact that the AB reveals a failure of conscious visual perception, it is at least partly due to limitations at central stages of information processing. Do all attentional limits to conscious perception have their locus at this central bottleneck? To address this question, here we investigated whether RB is affected by online response selection, a cognitive operation that requires central processing. The results indicate that, unlike the AB, RB does not result from central resource limitations. Evidently, temporal attentional limits to conscious perception can occur at multiple stages of information processing.
- Subjects
VISUAL perception; BLINDNESS; HUMAN information processing
- Publication
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2007, Vol 14, Issue 4, p729
- ISSN
1069-9384
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/BF03196829