@article{ref1,
title="Consciousness of targets during the attentional blink: a gradual or all-or-none dimension?",
journal="Attention, perception and psychophysics",
year="2011",
author="Nieuwenhuis, Sander and de Kleijn, Roy",
volume="73",
number="2",
pages="364-373",
abstract="Models of consciousness differ in whether they predict a gradual change or a discontinuous transition between nonconscious and conscious perception. Sergent and Dehaene (Psychological Science, 15, 720-728, 2004) asked subjects to rate on a continuous scale the subjective visibility of target words presented during an attentional blink. They found that these words were either detected as well as targets outside the attentional-blink period or not detected at all, and interpreted these results as support for a discontinuous transition between nonconscious and conscious processing. We present results from 4 attentional-blink experiments showing that this all-or-none rating pattern disappears with the use of an alternative measure of consciousness (post-decision wagering) and a more difficult identification task. Instead, under these circumstances, subjects used the consciousness rating scales in a continuous fashion. These results are more consistent with models that assume a gradual change between nonconscious and conscious perception during the attentional blink.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1943-3921",
doi="10.3758/s13414-010-0026-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-010-0026-1"
}