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An individual differences approach to temporal integration and order reversals in the attentional blink task
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, 11(5):e0156538. PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 5, p e0156538 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2016.
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Abstract
- BackgroundThe reduced ability to identify a second target when it is presented in close temporal succession of a first target is called the attentional blink (AB). Studies have shown large individual differences in AB task performance, where lower task performance has been associated with more reversed order reports of both targets if these were presented in direct succession. In order to study the suggestion that reversed order reports reflect loss of temporal information, in the current study, we investigated whether individuals with a larger AB have a higher tendency to temporally integrate both targets into one visual event by using an AB paradigm containing symbol target stimuli.Methodology/Principal FindingsIndeed, we found a positive relation between the tendency to temporally integrate information and individual AB magnitude. In contrast to earlier work, we found no relation between order reversals and individual AB magnitude. The occurrence of temporal integration was negatively related to the number of order reversals, indicating that individuals either integrated or separated and reversed information.ConclusionWe conclude that individuals with better AB task performance use a shorter time window to integrate information, and therefore have higher preservation of temporal information. Furthermore, order reversals observed in paradigms with alphanumeric targets indeed seem to at least partially reflect temporal integration of both targets. Given the negative relation between temporal integration and 'true' order reversals observed with the current symbolic target set, these two behavioral outcomes seem to be two sides of the same coin.
- Subjects :
- Male
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DYNAMICS
Vision
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Social Sciences
Task (project management)
Cognition
Learning and Memory
Mathematical and Statistical Techniques
0302 clinical medicine
Pupillary response
Psychology
Attention
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MASKING
Problem Solving
Event (probability theory)
Multidisciplinary
PUPIL-DILATION
Experimental Design
05 social sciences
Contrast (statistics)
Research Design
Physical Sciences
Regression Analysis
Sensory Perception
Female
Statistics (Mathematics)
Research Article
Cognitive psychology
Adult
Adolescent
Cognitive Neuroscience
EVENT INTEGRATION
Linear Regression Analysis
Research and Analysis Methods
050105 experimental psychology
ADAPTIVE-CONTROL
03 medical and health sciences
Memory
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Attentional blink
Working Memory
Statistical Methods
Set (psychology)
Working memory
lcsh:R
Cognitive Psychology
Biology and Life Sciences
DIFFICULTY
Cognitive Science
lcsh:Q
Mathematics
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Neuroscience
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLOS-One
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b040d38b185bbfdf172054ea7abecd31