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Olivers, 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

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