Recent research suggests that blink and saccadic suppression are produced by the same mechanism (Volkmann, 1986; Uchikawa & Sato, 1995; Ridder & Tomlinson, 1993, 1995). These studies demonstrated that blink and saccadic suppression have the same effect on various visual functions. However, none of these studies made a comparison of blink and saccadic suppression in the same individual. The purp...

In a typical attentional blink experiment, viewers try to detect two target items among distractors in a Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP): processing of the first target impairs participants' ability to recall a subsequent target at short stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs). However, little is known about whether target detection interferes with memory for nontarget items. To answer this ...

The detection or discrimination of the second of 2 targets in a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task is often temporarily impaired-a phenomenon termed the attentional blink. This study demonstrated that the attentional blink also affects localization performance. Spatial cues pointed out the possible target positions in a subsequent visual search display. When cues were presented inside...