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An attentional blink (AB) paradigm was used to investigate the attentional resources necessary for visual marking. The results showed that distractors presented inside the AB cannot easily be ignored despite participants anticipating a future target display. This supports the hypothesis that attentional resources are required for visual marking. In addition, probe dots were better detected on blinked distractors than on successfully ignored distractors, but only when the task required new items to be prioritized. In a final experiment, a stronger negative carry-over effect on search occured for targets identical to distractors presented outside rather than inside the AB. This suggests that at least part of the inhibitory processes involved in visual are nonspatial.

Original publication

DOI

10.1037/0096-1523.28.1.22

Type

Journal article

Journal

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Publication Date

01/01/2002

Volume

28

Pages

22 - 42