Determinants of repetition blindness. Park, J & Kanwisher, N J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 20(3):500-19, 1994.
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Repetition blindness (RB) for letters presented in rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) was shown to be highly dependent on absolute stimulus presentation rate (Experiment 1) and on the duration of the 2nd occurrence (C2) but not the 1st occurrence (C1) of the repeated item (Experiment 2). In Experiments 3-6, RB was strongly affected by C1-C2 interstimulus interval but not by response requirements or total memory load. In Experiment 7, sensitivity for detection of the 2nd vowel in an RSVP sequence of consonants was lower when it was identical to the 1st vowel (mean d' = .40) than when it was different (mean d' = .70). It is argued that RB is not due to (a) temporal overlap of C1 and C2 recognition, (b) forgetting of C2, (c) item-specific output interference, (d) response bias, or (e) guessing strategies; rather, RB arises because of the failure to bind recognized types to individuated tokens.
@Article{Park1994,
  author   = {J Park and N Kanwisher},
  journal  = {J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform},
  title    = {Determinants of repetition blindness.},
  year     = {1994},
  number   = {3},
  pages    = {500-19},
  volume   = {20},
  abstract = {Repetition blindness (RB) for letters presented in rapid serial visual
	presentation (RSVP) was shown to be highly dependent on absolute
	stimulus presentation rate (Experiment 1) and on the duration of
	the 2nd occurrence (C2) but not the 1st occurrence (C1) of the repeated
	item (Experiment 2). In Experiments 3-6, RB was strongly affected
	by C1-C2 interstimulus interval but not by response requirements
	or total memory load. In Experiment 7, sensitivity for detection
	of the 2nd vowel in an RSVP sequence of consonants was lower when
	it was identical to the 1st vowel (mean d' = .40) than when it was
	different (mean d' = .70). It is argued that RB is not due to (a)
	temporal overlap of C1 and C2 recognition, (b) forgetting of C2,
	(c) item-specific output interference, (d) response bias, or (e)
	guessing strategies; rather, RB arises because of the failure to
	bind recognized types to individuated tokens.},
  keywords = {Adult, Attention, Comparative Study, Humans, Language, Memory Disorders, Perceptual Disorders, Photic Stimulation, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Visual Perception, 8027712},
}

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