RSVP in orbit: Identification of single and dual targets in motion
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Wyble, Brad
Potter, Mary C
Mattar, Marcelo
Date Issued
December 2011
Journal
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
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Springer-Verlag
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Wyble, Brad, Mary C Potter, and Marcelo Mattar. “RSVP in Orbit: Identification of Single and Dual Targets in Motion.” Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 74.3 (2012): 553–562.
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Abstract
Three experiments using rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) tested participants' ability to detect targets in streams that are in motion. These experiments compared the ability to identify moving versus stationary RSVP targets and examined the attentional blink with pairs of targets that were moving or stationary. One condition presented RSVP streams in the center of the screen; a second condition used an RSVP that was orbiting in a circle, with participants instructed to follow the stream with their eyes; and a third condition had participants fixate in the middle while observing a circling RSVP stream. Relative to performance in stationary RSVP streams, participants were not markedly impaired in detecting single targets in RSVP streams that were moving, either with or without instructions to pursue the motion. In streams with two targets, a normal attentional blink effect was observed when participants were instructed to pursue the moving stream. When participants had to maintain central fixation as the RSVP stream moved, the attentional blink was nearly absent even when a trailing mask was added. We suggest that the reduction of the attentional blink for moving RSVP streams may reflect a reduced ability to perceive the temporal boundaries of the individual items.
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McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
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https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-011-0254-z
