Troche, Stefan J.; Indermühle, Rebekka; Rammsayer, Thomas H. (2012). Evidence for mental ability related individual differences in the attentional blink obtained by an analysis of the P300 component. Brain and cognition, 78(3), pp. 230-237. Elsevier Science 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.12.009
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Attentional blink (AB) refers to impaired identification of a target (T2) when this target follows a preceding target (T1) after about 150-450 ms within a stream of rapidly presented stimuli. Previous research on a possible relation between AB and mental ability (MA) turned out to be highly ambiguous. The present study investigated MA-related individual differences in consolidation of T2 in working memory during the AB as indicated by the P300 component of the event-related potential. Thirty high (HA) and 30 low MA (LA) female participants performed an AB task while their brain activity was recorded. The AB did not differ between the two groups. HA individuals exhibited a larger P300 amplitude and longer P300 latencies during the AB suggesting higher mental effort. This higher mental effort, however, did not result in better performance presumably because of more competition between target and distractor stimuli in HA than LA individuals.
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Personality Psychology, Differential Psychology and Diagnostics 10 Strategic Research Centers > Center for Cognition, Learning and Memory (CCLM) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Troche, Stefan, Indermühle, Rebekka, Rammsayer, Thomas |
Subjects: |
100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 370 Education |
ISSN: |
0278-2626 |
Publisher: |
Elsevier Science |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Andrea Stettler |
Date Deposited: |
30 May 2014 16:05 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:34 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1016/j.bandc.2011.12.009 |
PubMed ID: |
22261227 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.53250 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/53250 |
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