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@article{citeulike:1538361, abstract = {When attention is engaged in a task, unexpected events in the visual scene may go undetected, a phenomenon known as inattentional blindness (IB). At what stage of information processing must attention be engaged for IB to occur? Although manipulations that tax visuospatial attention can induce IB, the evidence is more equivocal for tasks that engage attention at late, central stages of information processing. Here, we tested whether IB can be specifically induced by central executive processes. An unexpected visual stimulus was presented during the retention interval of a working memory task that involved either simply maintaining verbal material or rearranging the material into alphabetical order. The unexpected stimulus was more likely to be missed during manipulation than during simple maintenance of the verbal information. Thus, the engagement of executive processes impairs the ability to detect unexpected, task-irrelevant stimuli, suggesting that IB can result from central, amodal stages of processing.}, address = {Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA. d.fougnie@vanderbilt.edu}, author = {Fougnie, D. and Marois, R.}, citeulike-article-id = {1538361}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17546744}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=17546744}, issn = {1069-9384}, journal = {Psychon Bull Rev}, keywords = {ib, memory, processing, working}, month = {February}, number = {1}, pages = {142--147}, posted-at = {2008-08-27 20:07:06}, priority = {2}, title = {Executive working memory load induces inattentional blindness.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17546744}, volume = {14}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1538361 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1538361 N2 - When attention is engaged in a task, unexpected events in the visual scene may go undetected, a phenomenon known as inattentional blindness (IB). At what stage of information processing must attention be engaged for IB to occur? Although manipulations that tax visuospatial attention can induce IB, the evidence is more equivocal for tasks that engage attention at late, central stages of information processing. Here, we tested whether IB can be specifically induced by central executive processes. An unexpected visual stimulus was presented during the retention interval of a working memory task that involved either simply maintaining verbal material or rearranging the material into alphabetical order. The unexpected stimulus was more likely to be missed during manipulation than during simple maintenance of the verbal information. Thus, the engagement of executive processes impairs the ability to detect unexpected, task-irrelevant stimuli, suggesting that IB can result from central, amodal stages of processing. IS - 1 JF - Psychon Bull Rev SN - 1069-9384 AD - Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA. d.fougnie@vanderbilt.edu EP - 147 TI - Executive working memory load induces inattentional blindness. VL - 14 SP - 142 KW - ib KW - memory KW - processing KW - working AU - Fougnie, D AU - Marois, R PY - 2007/02// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17546744 ER -