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PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages 600-607Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193969
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- Wellcome Trust [071944] Funding Source: Medline
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Our reduced ability to correctly report two sequentially presented targets is seen in the robust effect known as the attentional blink (AB; Raymond, Shapiro, & Arnell, 1992). One recent report (Olivers & Nieuwenhuis, 2005) strikingly reveals the AB to be virtually abolished when non-task-demanding music occurs in the background. The authors suggest that a diffuse attentional state is the mediating factor. Here, we seek to broaden the finding's generality by determining if task-irrelevant visual motion and flicker also attenuate the AB. In our experiments, the AB task was presented together with a background field of moving dots that could move away from or toward the central AB task, or flicker. In the control condition, the dots remained static. The AB was attenuated-though to different degrees-in all experimental conditions, but not in the static condition. Our findings add to the generality of the previous conclusions, and we emphasize an account based on the overallocation of attention.
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