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@article{citeulike:4160975, abstract = {The human mind is severely limited in processing concurrent information at a conscious level of awareness. These temporal restrictions are clearly reflected in the attentional blink (AB), a deficit in reporting the second of two targets when it occurs 200-500 ms after the first. However, we recently reported that some individuals do not show a visual AB, and presented psychophysiological evidence that target processing differs between "blinkers" and "nonblinkers". Here, we present evidence that visual nonblinkers do show an auditory AB, which suggests that a major source of attentional restriction as reflected in the AB is likely to be modality-specific. In Experiment 3, we show that when the difficulty in identifying visual targets is increased, nonblinkers continue to show little or no visual AB, suggesting that the presence of an AB in the auditory but not in the visual modality is not due to a difference in task difficulty.}, author = {Martens, Sander and Johnson, Addie and Bolle, Martje and Borst, Jelmer}, citeulike-article-id = {4160975}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169.56.1.33}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/687335171415V4JX}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19261576}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19261576}, doi = {10.1027/1618-3169.56.1.33}, issn = {1618-3169}, journal = {Experimental psychology}, keywords = {attention, auditory, visual}, number = {1}, pages = {33--40}, posted-at = {2009-03-10 16:30:29}, priority = {2}, title = {A quick visual mind can be a slow auditory mind. Individual differences in attentional selection across modalities.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169.56.1.33}, volume = {56}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4160975 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4160975 N2 - The human mind is severely limited in processing concurrent information at a conscious level of awareness. These temporal restrictions are clearly reflected in the attentional blink (AB), a deficit in reporting the second of two targets when it occurs 200-500 ms after the first. However, we recently reported that some individuals do not show a visual AB, and presented psychophysiological evidence that target processing differs between "blinkers" and "nonblinkers". Here, we present evidence that visual nonblinkers do show an auditory AB, which suggests that a major source of attentional restriction as reflected in the AB is likely to be modality-specific. In Experiment 3, we show that when the difficulty in identifying visual targets is increased, nonblinkers continue to show little or no visual AB, suggesting that the presence of an AB in the auditory but not in the visual modality is not due to a difference in task difficulty. IS - 1 JF - Experimental psychology SN - 1618-3169 EP - 40 TI - A quick visual mind can be a slow auditory mind. Individual differences in attentional selection across modalities. VL - 56 SP - 33 KW - attention KW - auditory KW - visual AU - Martens, Sander AU - Johnson, Addie AU - Bolle, Martje AU - Borst, Jelmer PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169.56.1.33 ER -