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The delayed consolidation hypothesis of all-or-none conscious perception during the attentional blink, applying the ST² framework

Howard Bowman, Patrick Craston, Srivas Chennu, and Brad Wyble

In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 2152-2157. Cognitive Science Society, July 2009.

Abstract

There is evidence that conscious perception during the attentional blink is all-or-none, which contrasts with the finding of a continuum of perceptual strength in masking experiments. This seems to reveal the underlying representation of strength that can be found in the brain in the absence of attentional enhancement. We provide electrophysiological support for this all-or-none theory. Then, using principles from the ST2 model of temporal attention and working memory, we show how this all-or-none pattern can be explained by the delayed attentional enhancement/target consolidation that is known to arise during the attentional blink.

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Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{2896,
author = {Howard Bowman and Patrick Craston and Srivas Chennu and Brad Wyble},
title = {The delayed consolidation hypothesis of all-or-none conscious perception during  the attentional blink, applying the {ST$^2$} framework},
month = {July},
year = {2009},
pages = {2152-2157},
keywords = {Attentional Blink, ST$^2$},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2009/2896},
    publication_type = {inproceedings},
    submission_id = {29740_1239008046},
    booktitle = { Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society},
    organization = {Cognitive Science Society},
}

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