Types and tokens in visual processing: A double dissociation between the attentional blink and repetition blindness.
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
- Vol. 23 (3) , 738-755
- https://doi.org/10.1037//0096-1523.23.3.738
Abstract
In rapid serial visual presentation tasks, correct identification of a target triggers a deficit for reporting a 2nd target appearing within 500 ms: an attentional blink (AB). A different phenomenon, termed repetition blindness (RB), refers to a deficit for the 2nd of 2 stimuli that are identical. What is the relationship between these 2 deficits? The present study obtained a double dissociation between AB and RB. AB and RB followed different time courses (Experiments 1 and 4A), increased target-distractor discriminability alleviated AB but not RB (Experiments 2 and 4A), and enhanced episodic distinctiveness of the two targets eliminated RB but not AB (Experiments 3 and 4B). The implications of the double dissociation between AB and RB for theories of visual processing are discussed.Keywords
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