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SUBMITTER: Wyble B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3149751 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wyble Brad B Potter Mary C MC Bowman Howard H Nieuwenstein Mark M
Journal of experimental psychology. General 20110801 3
Is one's temporal perception of the world truly as seamless as it appears? This article presents a computationally motivated theory suggesting that visual attention samples information from temporal episodes (episodic simultaneous type/serial token model; Wyble, Bowman, & Nieuwenstein, 2009). Breaks between these episodes are punctuated by periods of suppressed attention, better known as the attentional blink (Raymond, Shapiro, & Arnell, 1992). We test predictions from this model and demonstrate ...[more]