Affordances of tools and their action counterparts enhance attentional dynamics as measured by the attentional blink.

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Maha Adamo
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Affordances of tools and their action counterparts enhance attentional dynamics as measured by the attentional blink.

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Under conditions of high attentional demand, such as the processing of two visual targets presented in rapid sequence, normal individuals display particular decrements in processing known as the attentional blink (AB). The aim of the current study was to determine whether action-relations can result in enhanced perception, seen as a reduction in the AB. In a rapid serial visual presentation of pictures of objects, the first target (T1) was always a tool and the second target (T2) either could be acted upon by that tool (ACT trials) or not (NON trials). When participants were required to respond to both T1 and T2, an attentional blink resulted for ACT and NON T2s; importantly, the blink for ACT T2s was significantly diminished compared to that of NON T2s, demonstrating enhanced attentional processing for objects that can be engaged in an action relationship with a tool that has been successfully attended and identified.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-06, page: 3009.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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