@inproceedings{cce1b6ebccae464dbc9cb330b92f18ae,
title = "Don't Blink! Evaluating Training Paradigms for Overcoming the Attentional Blink",
abstract = "A lot of people show a decline in performance when they have to report a second target stimulus in a stream of distractor stimuli. Curiously, this decline only happens when the second target appears approximately 200-500ms after the first target. Recently, Choi, Chang, Shibata, Sasaki, and Watanabe (2012) have shown that a short, one-hour training can eliminate this “attentional blink”. Up to now, it is still unclear why this training works. In this paper, we have evaluated a range of different training paradigms to test several hypotheses about the mechanism behind the reduction of the attentional blink. Our results show that none of these training paradigms have a large training effect when administered in isolation. The training by Choi et al. (2012) outperforms them all. The most likely explanation for this effect are temporal expectations relative to the first target.",
keywords = "Attentional Blink, Strategy Choice, Temporal Expectations, Training",
author = "Trudy Buwalda and Jelmer Borst and \{van Vugt\}, Marieke and Niels Taatgen",
note = "Funding Information: This research was funded by ERC-StG grant 283597 awarded to Niels Taatgen. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016. All rights reserved.; 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Recognizing and Representing Events, CogSci 2016 ; Conference date: 10-08-2016 Through 13-08-2016",
year = "2016",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016",
publisher = "The Cognitive Science Society",
pages = "2189--2194",
editor = "Anna Papafragou and Daniel Grodner and Daniel Mirman and Trueswell, \{John C.\}",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016",
}