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ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
Volume 72, Issue 3, Pages 602-606Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.3.602
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- National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
- Ontario Innovation Trust (OIT)
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When identifying two targets presented in a rapid serial visual presentation stream, one's accuracy on the second target is reduced if it is presented shortly (within 500 msec) after the first target-an attentional blink (AB). Individuals differ greatly in the size of their AB. One way to learn about the AB is to understand what underlies these individual differences. Recent studies have suggested that when a broadened or diffused attentional state is induced, the AB deficit can be attenuated. The present study examined whether natural (dispositional) individual differences in focus and diffusion of attention as assessed by the global/local task could predict performance on the AB task. Performance that was consistent with diffusion correlated negatively with AB size, and performance that was consistent with focusing correlated positively with AB size, showing that dispositional focus and diffusion of attention can predict individual differences in the AB. These findings are consistent with the Olivers and Nieuwenhuis (2006) overinvestment hypothesis.
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