Distractor detection and suppression have a beneficial effect on attentional blink.

BACKGROUND: Attentional blink (AB) is a phenomenon that describes the difficulty individuals have in reporting the second of two masked targets if the second target (T2) arrives 200-500 ms after the first target (T1). Recent studies explain the AB from cognitive resources limitation to distractors i...

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Main Authors: Jing Zhao, Hong Li, Cody Ding, Antao Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3440329?pdf=render