Working memory and the attentional blink: Blink size is predicted by individual differences in operation span

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1051-1057

  Colzato, Lorenza S ^a,b   Spapé, Michtel M A ^a   Pannebakker, Merel M ^a   Hommel, Bernhard ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149063501     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193090     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. ACKERMAN, P. L., BEIER, M. E., & BOYLE, M. O. (2002). Individual differences in working memory within a nomological network. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 131, 567-589.
2. AKYÜREK, E. G., & HOMMEL, B. (2006). Memory operations in rapid serial visual presentation. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 18, 520-536.
3. AKYÜREK, E. G., RIDDELL, P. M., TOFFANIN, P., & HOMMEL, B. (2007). Adaptive control of event integration: Evidence from event-related potentials. Psychophysiology, 44, 383-391.
4. BADDELEY, A. D. (1996). The fractionation of working memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 93, 13468-13472.
5. BLECKLEY, M. K., HOLLINGSWORTH, A. R., & MAKI, W. (2005). Working memory capacity predicts attentional blink. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 10, 55.
6. CHUN, M. M., & POTTER, M. C. (1995). A two-stage model for multiple target detection in rapid serial visual presentation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 21, 109-127.
7. CONWAY, A. R. A., COWAN, N., BUNTING, M. F., THERRIAULT, D. J., & MINKOFF, S. R. B. (2002). A latent variable analysis of working memory capacity, short-term memory capacity, processing speed, and general fluid intelligence. Intelligence, 30, 163-183.
8. CONWAY, A. R. A., KANE, M. J., & ENGLE, R. W. (2003). Working memory capacity and its relation to general intelligence. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 547-552.
9. DEARY, I. J. (2000). Looking down on human intelligence: From psychometrics to the brain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
10. DEHAEANE, S., SERGENT, C.,. & CHANGEUX, J. P. (2003). A neuronal network model linking subjective reports and objective physiological data during conscious perception. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100, 8520-8525.
11. DUNCAN, J., BURGESS, P., & EMSLIE, H. (1995). Fluid intelligence after frontal lobe lesions. Neuropsychologia, 33, 261-268.
12. DUNCAN, J., EMSLIE, H., WILLIAMS, P., JOHNSON, R., & FREER, C. (1996). Intelligence and the frontal lobe: The organization of goaldirected behavior. Cognitive Psychology, 30, 257-303.
13. DI LOLLO, V., KAWAHARA, J. I., GHORASHI, S. M., & ENNS, J. T. (2005). The attentional blink: Resource depletion or temporary loss of control? Psychological Research, 69, 191-200.
14. ENGLE, R. W., KANE, M. J., & TUHOLSKI, S. W. (1999). Individual differences in working memory capacity and what they tell us about controlled attention, general fluid intelligence and functions of the prefrontal cortex. In A. Miyake & P. Shah (Eds.), Models of working memory: Mechanisms of active maintenance and executive control (pp. 102-134). New York: Cambridge University Press.
15. GROSS, J., SCHMITZ, F., SCHNITZLER, I., KESSLER, K., SHAPIRO, K., HOMMEL, B., & SCHNITZLER, A. (2004). Long-range neural synchrony predicts temporal limitations of visual attention in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 101, 13050-13055.
16. HOMMEL, B., & AKYÏREK, E. (2005). Lag-1 sparing in the attentional blink: Benefits and costs of integrating two events into a single episode. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 58A, 1415-1433.
17. HOMMEL, B., KESSLER, K., SCHMITZ, F., GROSS, J., AKYÜREK, F., SHAPIRO, K., & SCHNITZLER, A. (2006). How the brain blinks: Towards a neurocognitive model of the Attentional Blink. Psychological Research, 70, 425-435.
18. JENSEN, A. R. ( 1993). Why is reaction time correlated with psychometric gl Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2, 53-56.
19. JOLICCEUR, P., & DELL'ACQUA, R. (1998). The demonstration of shortterm consolidation. Cognitive Psychology, 36, 138-202.
20. JOLICCEUR, P., TOMBU, M., ORIET, C., & STEVANOVSKI, B. (2002). From perception to action: Making the connection. In W. Prinz, & B. Hommel (Eds.), Common mechanisms in perception and action: Attention and performance XIX(pp. 558-586). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
21. KANE, M. J., & ENGLE, R. W. (2002). The role of prefrontal cortex in working-memory capacity, executive attention, and general fluid intelligence: An individual differences perspective. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9, 637-671.
22. KANE, M. J., HAMBRICK, D. Z., TUHOLSKI, S. W., WILHELM, O., PAYNE, T. W., & ENGLE, R. W. (2004). The generality of working-memory capacity: A latent-variable approach to verbal and visuospatial memory span and reasoning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 133, 189-217.
23. KESSLER, K., SCHMITZ, F., GROSS, J., HOMMEL, B., SHAPIRO, K., & SCHNITZLER, A. (2005). Target consolidation under high temporal processing demands as revealed by MEG. Neurolmage, 26, 1030-1041.
24. KYLLONEN, P. C., & CHRISTAL, R. E. (1990). Reasoning ability is (little more than) working memory capacity. Intelligence, 14, 398-433.
25. LUCK, S. J., VOGEL, E. K., & SHAPIRO, K. L. (1996). Word meanings are accessed but cannot be reported during the attentional blink. Nature, 383, 616-618.
26. MAROIS, R. (2005). Two-timing attention. Nature Neuroscience, 8, 1285-1286.
27. MILLER, E. K., & COHEN, J. D. (2001 ). An integrative theory of prefrontal cortex function. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 24, 167-202.
28. NIEUWENSTEIN, M. R., & POTTER, M. C. (2006). Temporal limits of selection and memory encoding: A comparison of whole versus partial report in rapid serial visual presentation. Psychological Science, 17, 471-475.
29. OLIVERS, C. N. L., & NIEUWENHUIS, S. T. (2005). The beneficial effect of concurrent task-irrelevant mental activity on temporal WHAT. Psychological Science, 16, 265-269.
30. OLIVERS, C. N. L., & NIEUWENHUIS, S. T. (2006). The beneficial effects of additional task load, positive affect, and instruction on the attentional blink. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 32, 364-379.
31. OLIVERS, C. N. L., VAN DER STIGCHEL, S., & HULLEMAN, J. (2007). Spreading the sparing: Against a limited-capacity account of the attentional blink. Psychological Research, 71, 126-139.
32. POSTLE, B. R., BERGER, J. S., & D'ESPOSITO, M. ( 1999). Functional neuroanatomical double dissociation of mnemonic and executive control processes contributing to working memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 96, 12959-12964.
33. POTTER, M. C. (1976). Short-term conceptual memory for pictures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning & Memory, 2, 509-522.
34. POTTER, M. C., STAUB, A., & O'CONNOR, D. H. (2002). The time course of competition for attention: Attention is initially labile. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 28, 1149-1162.
35. RAVEN, J. C., COURT, J. H., & RAVEN. J. (1988). Manual for Raven's progressive matrices and vocabulary scales. London: Lewis.
36. RAYMOND, J. E., SHAPIRO, K. L., & ARNELL, K. M. (1992). Temporary suppression of visual processing in an RSVP task: An attentional blink? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 18, 849-860.
37. SHAPIRO, K., SCHMITZ, F., MARTENS, S., HOMMEL, B., & SCHNITZLER, A. (2006). Resource sharing in the attentional blink. NeuroReport,n, 163-166.
38. SÜß, H. M., OBERAUER, K., WITTMANN, W. W., WILHELM, O., & SCHULZE, R. (2002). Working memory capacity explains reasoning ability and a little bit more. Intelligence, 30,3,261-288.
39. TURNER, M. L., & ENGLE, R.W. (1989). Is working memory capacity task dependent? Journal of Memory & Language, 28, 127-154.
40. VERNON, P. A. (Ed.) ( 1987). Speed of information-processing and intelligence. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
41. VISSER, T., BISCHOF, W. F., & DI LOLLO, V. (1999). Attentional switching in spatial and non-spatial domains: Evidence from the attentional blink. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 458-469.
42. VOGEL, E. K., LUCK, S. J., & SHAPIRO, K. L. (1998). Electrophysiological evidence for a posrperceptual locus of suppression during the attentional blink. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 24, 1656-1674.