Attentional inhibition mediates inattentional blindness |
| |
| Authors: | Preston P. Thakral Scott D. Slotnick |
| |
| Affiliation: | 1. Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;2. Natural Language Processing Laboratory, College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Liaoning 110819, China;3. Department of Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University, Denmark;1. Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey;2. Department of Neurology, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey;3. Department of Neurology, Içerenköy Bayindir Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey;4. Michael Trimble Neuropsychiatry Research Group, Department of Neuropsychiatry, BSMHFT, Birmingham, UK;5. Section of Neuropharmacology and Neurobiology, School of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Birmingham, UK;6. School of Life and Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, UK;7. Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, UCL, Institute of Neurology, London, UK |
| |
| Abstract: | Salient stimuli presented at unattended locations are not always perceived, a phenomenon termed inattentional blindness. We hypothesized that inattentional blindness may be mediated by attentional inhibition. It has been shown that attentional inhibition effects are maximal near an attended location. If our hypothesis is correct, inattentional blindness effects should similarly be maximal near an attended location. During central fixation, participants viewed rapidly presented colored digits at a peripheral location. An unexpected black circle (the critical stimulus) was concurrently presented. Participants were instructed to maintain central fixation and name each color/digit, requiring focused attention to that location. For each participant, the critical stimulus was presented either near to or far from the attended location (at the same eccentricity). In support of our hypothesis, inattentional blindness effects were maximal near the attended location, but only at intermediate task accuracy. |
| |
| Keywords: | |
| 本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录！ |
|
