TY - JOUR PY - 2007// TI - Previous attentional set can induce an attentional blink with task-irrelevant initial targets JO - Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) A1 - Thompson, Catherine A1 - Underwood, Geoffrey J. A1 - Crundall, David SP - 1603 EP - 1609 VL - 60 IS - 12 N2 - Identification of a second target is often impaired by the requirement to process a prior target in a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP). This is termed the attentional blink. Even when the first target is task irrelevant an attentional blink may occur providing this first target shares similar features with the second target (contingent capture). An RSVP experiment was undertaken to assess whether this first target can still cause an attentional blink when it did not require a response and did not share any features with the following target. The results revealed that such task-irrelevant targets can induce an attentional blink providing that they were task relevant on a previous block of trials. This suggests that irrelevant focal stimuli can distract attention on the basis of a previous attentional set.

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LA - en SN - 1747-0218 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470210701536468 ID - ref1 ER -