A transient processing deficit following selection of an auditory target

Journal/Book: Psychonomic Bull Rev. 1998; 5: 1710 Fortview Rd, Austin, TX 78704. Psychonomic Soc Inc. 305-311.

Abstract: Two experiments were conducted to examine the possibility that a transient processing deficit might result following selection of an auditory target. In both experiments, listeners were presented with a sequence of tones and required to make separate detection judgments, one regarding a target and the second regarding a subsequent probe. The target was presented following a variable number of tones, and the probe was presented in one of the seven or eight possible temporal positions following the target. The experiments differed only in that in Experiment I the first post-target item could be either a distracter tone or a probe, whereas in Experiment 2 the first post-target item was replaced by a silent period. In both experiments, a deficit in processing of the probe was apparent when it was presented in one of the first few positions following the target.

Note: Article Mondor TA, Mt Allison Univ, Dept Psychol, Sackville, NB E0A 3C0, CANADA

Keyword(s): SERIAL VISUAL PRESENTATION; DUAL-TASK INTERFERENCE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; MECHANISMS; SIMILARITY; SEARCH; LOCUS

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