Cr. Luo et A. Caramazza, TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL REPETITION BLINDNESS - EFFECTS OF PRESENTATION MODE AND REPETITION LAG ON THE PERCEPTION OF REPEATED ITEMS, Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, 22(1), 1996, pp. 95-113
In this study, participants were asked to identify briefly presented 5
-letter (Experiments 1-3) or 2-letter (Experiment 4) strings. Identica
l items in a repeated trial were identified worse than their counterpa
rts in a nonrepeated trial, indicating repetition blindness (RE; N. G.
Kanwisher, 1987). In Experiment 1, RE occurred regardless of whether
items were presented successively or simultaneously. In Experiments 2-
4, RE occurred regardless of whether 2 simultaneously presented items
were spatially close or far apart. The magnitude of RE, however, varie
d with presentation mode and repetition lag: RE was smaller in simulta
neous than successive presentation, and RE increased and then decrease
d with the number of items separating 2 identical ones. These results
provide important constraints in the interpretation of RE. A model tha
t attributes RE to the refractoriness of perceptual recognition units
is proposed.