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Attention and Time$
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Anna C. Nobre and Jennifer T. Coull

Print publication date: 2010

Print ISBN-13: 9780199563456

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199563456.001.0001

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The attentional boost and the attentional blink

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(p. 49 ) Chapter 4 The attentional boost and the attentional blink
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Attention and Time
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Christian N. L. Olivers

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199563456.003.0004

This chapter examines the relation between attentional blink and the so-called attentional boost. It discusses the results from research about attention and explains that attentional boost can be described as a rapid, automatic, and goal-driven attentional response. It argues that there is ample behavioural evidence that attention acts rapidly and often transiently in response to the detection of a relevant stimulus and that the location of a stimulus is more rapidly detected than its exact features.

Keywords:   attentional blink, attentional boost, attentional response, stimulus, behavioural evidence

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