Talk:Attentional blink

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Timing
Whoever edited the timing - you are correct - after research i found i was taught incorrectly. thuglastalk 13:46, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Structure
I added some simple structure since the content was large enough to warrant it, and I believe this improved readability. I'm not married to the exact section headers though, if you have better ideas for them or for the structure I invite you to change those. - Owlmonkey (talk) 22:09, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Meditation
"A study conducted by Heleen Slagter, Richard Davidson and colleagues, suggests that meditation, particularly vipassana, may reduce the duration of attentional blink. In an experiment, 17 people received three months of intensive training in meditation. Those 17 along with 23 meditation novices performed an attention task in which they successively picked out two numbers embedded in a series of letters. The novices exhibited attentional blink and missed the second number. In contrast, all the trained meditators consistently picked out both numbers. This indicated meditation practice can improve focus.[6][7]"

The finding that frequent meditators perform better in an RSVP task might not be due to improved focus. To the contrary, a number of articles illustrated that a diffuse state of attention, not focus, leads to a better performance in an RSVP task. For example Olivers and Niewuenhuis (2005) show that non-task related music in the background or doing free association during an RSVP task leads to attenuation of the attentional blink. They argue that this is done by producing diffuse attentional state.

Olivers, C. N. L., & Nieuwenhuis, S. (2005). The beneficial effect of concurrent task-irrelevant mental activity on temporal attention. Psychological Science, 16, 265-269. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.169.128.3 (talk) 13:14, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Editing
Hello Everyone, I'm in the process of editing this article for a class at Clemson University. If you have any advice or input please feel free to contact me.Taydncn (talk) 01:07, 26 February 2013 (UTC) I will be adding to the sections that are already in the article, research, meditation, and emotions. If you have any suggestions please let me know.Taydncn (talk) 13:49, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

I will be continuing to work on this article. If you have any input please fill free to let me knowTaydncn (talk) 00:47, 9 April 2013 (UTC)

Hello everyone I just wanted to mention that I already uploaded some information on research and theories as well as emotion and mediation sections in the article. If you have any questions or suggestion feel free to let me know.Taydncn (talk) 01:08, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Hello everyone,

I've uploaded the final article. I've added the section development of attentional blink. I've also added some more information on the theories section, emotion section and the mediation section.Taydncn (talk) 15:17, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Hello Everyone,

I am editing this article for a class at Davidson College. Upon initial review of the article, it was very short-- so I will be adding to the topics already listed and expand upon them. In addition to being short, there is enough information left out that the article almost reads as incomplete. While neutral in tone and presentation, some links to specified facts-- particularly "lag 1 sparing" are not included. While reading the article, the author uses vague references to measurements and definitions that should otherwise be precise and specific (i.e. "that targets presented very close together in time"). The facts presented read more as opinion than scholarly, simply from the lack cited data. I'll be adding to these facts in the upcoming weeks.

To expand on the information that the author presented, I found this abstract pertaining to the effects that Lag 1 and extended Lag on attentional blink

Mawalters (talk) 19:05, 5 September 2016 (UTC)Mary Walters

Hi there all, I am editing this for a psychology class at Davidson College The article itself is very short and seems kind of incomplete. All throughout the article there's a few citations missing - citations that could help the reader decipher what the article is saying. There are also some grammatical and sentence structure issues. The article itself reads as a compilation of facts put together in no particular order but it doesn't give a concrete definition of what the attentional blink is. The article is in fact unbiased, but the way it's organized is confusing. After reading through the full article it was still very difficult to even begin to grasp the concept of what an attentional blink is.

The article is sort of difficult to understand from the beginning and I think that adding additional information on the subjects of "temporal costs" and "allocating selective attention". If one was interested in adding additional information on how temporal costs connects to attentional blink they could use this article. ... and if one wanted to expand on how selective attention plays a role in the attentional blink they could use this article

Alexis.lee (talk) 19:08, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Hello Everyone,

Here are some sources that I plan to contribute to the article regarding the section on lag 1 sparing. Expectancy-based modulations of lag-1 sparing and extended sparing during the attentional blink.

On the costs of lag-1 sparing.

Short-term consolidation of individual identities leads to Lag-1 sparing.

Irrelevant auditory and visual events induce a visual attentional blink.

Mawalters (talk) 14:52, 10 September 2016 (UTC)Mary Walters

Hi fellow Wikipedians! I am new to Wikipedia, and I am working on this article as a part of a class assignment. This article has a lot of potential. However, there are things that can be added or switched around to make it better. We should consider inserting images to increase credibility and make the topic easier to understand. I think it would also be wise to fix some of the wording to make it easier to read. I'll be working on the article for the next few months to increase the quality! I am open to criticism. Advise is openly accepted as I am new to this. Please let me know!-Stephanie.merrick.wright (talk) 22:25, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Formatting Issue
Iv'e uploaded my additions to this article several of times and it has been taken down because of formatting issues. I am wondering if there are any suggestions on how I can fix this I will greatly appreciate it. Here is a link to my version of the article modarticle2, please help me fix this problemTaydncn (talk) 00:50, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
 * If you add material to the article that's fine (assuming it follows all the usual rules about being encyclopedic, referenced etc), but you've also been unbolding the lead, adding a non-functional navbox and removing categories. I suggest you add new material into the relevant sections of the article (and add new sections as necessary) rather than overwriting the whole article. Please also provide an edit summary for each edit to explain why the edit improves the article (even something like "new info" is better than nothing). For info: I'm no expert in the subject matter here; this article came to my attention because all its categories had been removed. DexDor (talk) 06:38, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I did not realize the categories have been removed and fixed them. The navbox is working in my workspace, i don't know why its not working on the article page. I've add to the talk page about what I have added to the article. I did add to the relevant sections to the article also adding a new section. The info that was in the original article is still in there. If you click on the modarticle2 link you can see all of this. Let me know what you think before I upload my version of the article to the page.Taydncn (talk) 17:00, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
 * The draft article in your userspace shouldn't be in categories; category tags can be commented out (either using HTML tags or by inserting an extra colon in each tag as I've just done). If you copy your draft over the mainspace article you should remove the extra colons (or someone else will do it) - I normally edit sections of an article rather than paste over the whole thing. In your draft there are a few bits that could do with copyediting (e.g. some spurious characters at the end of Meditation section and WP:MOS issues) - are you happy for me to copyedit your draft (normally I wouldn't edit another users draft apart from commenting out the category tags) ? Re the navbox you're trying to use - what other article uses it ? DexDor (talk) 18:53, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
 * You can copyedit my draft if you like, I'll appreciate it. I'm actually new to wikipedia editing and this assignment was for class. Any advice and suggestions are greatly appreciated.Taydncn (talk) 19:22, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I've done some copyediting and suggest you paste it into the main article - don't forget to remove the extra colons in the category tags, to use an edit summary (especially important if you're removing any existing material) and to blank your draft when you've finished with it (so it doesn't show up on "what links here"). Best wishes, DexDor (talk) 20:38, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

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