Abstract: The Attentional Blink (AB) is a well studied temporal attention phenomenon, and is particularly suitable for investigating the nature and limits of conscious perception. The AB employs Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP), in which a sequence of items is presented at the same spatial location at a rate of around 10 items per second, with each item rapidly replacing the previous one. At such speeds, the items presented, some of which are targets to be detected and others are irrelevant distractors, yield only fleeting mental representations, ...
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Cognitive psychology