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Attentional Blink
“You detect one target in a rapid stream. The next arrives too soon and disappears.”
01 / SUMMARY
In short
After identifying a first target in a rapid sequence, detection of a second often drops when it appears a few hundred milliseconds later. Temporal attention has a bottleneck.
03 / SCENE
In the wild
In a fast stream of letters, recognizing one digit can make a second digit immediately afterward difficult to report.
04 / LIMIT
The limit
It is not a physical blink of the eye, and the exact window changes with task and training.
FINAL NOTE
What remains
Separate two important alerts in time; making them compete for the same instant can hide the second.