Neuroimaging Center, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, P.O. Box 196, 9700 AD, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2010 May;34(6):947-57. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2009.12.005. Epub 2009 Dec 16.
A survey of the attention literature reveals the prominence of the attentional blink (AB)--a deficit in reporting the second of two targets when presented in close temporal succession. For two decades, this robust attentional phenomenon has been a major topic in attention research because it is informative about the rate at which stimuli can be encoded into consciously accessible representations. The pace of discovery and theoretical advancement concerning the AB has increased rapidly in the past few years with emphasis on new neurophysiological evidence and computational accounts of attentional processes. In this review we extract the central questions and the main lessons learnt from the past, and subsequently provide important directions for future research.
一项关于注意力文献的调查揭示了注意力眨眼（AB）的突出地位——当两个目标在时间上紧密连续呈现时，报告第二个目标的能力会出现缺陷。二十年来，这种强大的注意力现象一直是注意力研究的一个主要课题，因为它可以提供有关刺激能够以多快的速度编码到有意识的可访问表示中的信息。随着对注意力过程的新神经生理学证据和计算解释的强调，过去几年中，关于 AB 的发现和理论进展的步伐迅速加快。在这篇综述中，我们提取了过去的核心问题和主要经验教训，随后为未来的研究提供了重要的方向。
