The Assessment of Multiple Processes Underlying the Attentional Blink: A Fixed - links Modeling Approach based on Behavioral and Electrophysiological Data

Wagner, Felicitas Lony; Troche, Stefan; Rammsayer, Thomas; Schweizer, Karl (19 July 2013). The Assessment of Multiple Processes Underlying the Attentional Blink: A Fixed - links Modeling Approach based on Behavioral and Electrophysiological Data (Unpublished). In: 12th European Conference on Psychological Assessment. San Sebastian, Spain. 17.-20.06.2013.

When observers are presented with two visual targets appearing in the same position in close temporal proximity, a marked reduction in detection performance of the second target has often been reported, the so-called attentional blink phenomenon. Several studies found a similar decrement of P300 amplitudes during the attentional blink period as observed with detection performances of the second target. However, whether the parallel courses of second target performances and corresponding P300 amplitudes resulted from the same underlying mechanisms remained unclear. The aim of our study was therefore to investigate whether the mechanisms underlying the AB can be assessed by fixed-links modeling and whether this kind of assessment would reveal the same or at least related processes in the behavioral and electrophysiological data. On both levels of observation three highly similar processes could be identified: an increasing, a decreasing and a u-shaped trend. Corresponding processes from the behavioral and electrophysiological data were substantially correlated, with the two u-shaped trends showing the strongest association with each other. Our results provide evidence for the assumption that the same mechanisms underlie attentional blink task performance at the electrophysiological and behavioral levels as assessed by fixed-links models.

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)

Division/Institute:

07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Personality Psychology, Differential Psychology and Diagnostics
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology

UniBE Contributor:

Wagner, Felicitas Lony, Troche, Stefan, Rammsayer, Thomas

Subjects:

100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology

Language:

English

Submitter:

Felicitas Lony Wagner

Date Deposited:

11 Apr 2014 16:13

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:29

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/43628

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