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Published on: October 11, 2010
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P J Barnard1, S Scott, J Taylor
1MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, England. philip.barnard@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Abstract:
Several paradigms show that responses to one event compromise responses to a second event for around 500 ms. Such effects are generally attributed to attentional capacity limitations associated with processing information in the first event. In a task in which targets could be distinguished only by their meaning, we varied the semantic relationship between distractors and targets following at different lags. Semantic relatedness alone produced a classic attentional blink. We conclude by discussing how attention theory might best accommodate these new effects.
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