It hurts more than it helps: Cuing T1 with imagery can impair T2 identification in an attentional blink task.

Publisher: Springer Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 101495384 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1943-393X (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 19433921 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Atten Percept Psychophys Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: 2011- : New York : Springer
Original Publication: Austin, Tex. : Psychonomic Society

Attentional Blink*; Attention ; Cues ; Humans

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate whether cuing a first target with color imagery could influence second target identification using the two-target attentional blink procedure of MacLellan, Shore, and Milliken (2015, Psychological Research, 79, 556-569.). This method asks participants to identify a first target word interleaved with a distractor word and a second target word that follows the first target after a variable stimulus onset asynchrony. Prior to each trial of the two-target procedure, participants were cued to generate color imagery that was congruent with the color of the first target word, the color of the distractor word, the color of neither the first target or distractor words (Experiment 2), or to withhold generating color imagery (Experiment 3). The results revealed that identification of the second target was impaired when the cue was congruent with the distractor word, and equivalent when the cue was congruent with the first target word, relative to when color imagery was withheld. These results suggest that the attentional resources needed to identify the first target were not reduced by a match between the color of imagery and the first target, but a match between the color of imagery and the distractor increased the attentional resources needed to identify the first target.
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Keywords: Attentional blink; Precuing; Visual imagery

Date Created: 20220817 Date Completed: 20220920 Latest Revision: 20220923

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