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Brannstrom, Lauritz – 1980
Visual acuity as a function of target position and density was measured in a letter recognition task. A homogeneous pattern of equally-spaced elements was tachistoscopically exposed, where the target was never located at the boundaries of the pattern. The target was marked with a spatial cue to control attentional processes. With such a spatial…
Descriptors: Cues, Dimensional Preference, Letters (Alphabet), Patterned Responses
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Direct linkOlivers, Christian N. L.; Watson, Derrick G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
The attentional blink refers to the finding that the 2nd of 2 targets embedded in a stream of rapidly presented distractors is often missed. Whereas most theories of the attentional blink focus on limited-capacity processes that occur after target selection, the present work investigates the selection process itself. Identifying a target letter…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Inhibition, Eye Movements, Visual Stimuli
