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Two experiments were conducted to examine the possibility that a transient processing deficit might result following selection of an auditory target. In both experiments, listeners were presented with a sequence of tones and required to make separate detection judgments, one regarding a target and the second regarding a subsequent probe. The target was presented following a variable number of tones, and the probe was presented in one of the seven or eight possible temporal positions following the target. The experiments differed only in that in Experiment 1 the first post-target item could be either a distractor tone or a probe, whereas in Experiment 2 the first post-target item was replaced by a silent period. In both experiments, a deficit in processing of the probe was apparent when it was presented in one of the first few positions following the target.
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This paper is dedicated to the memory of M. Philip Bryden. This research was supported by grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of New Brunswick. I am indebted to Hal Pashler, Tram Neill, and Jane Raymond for their rigorous evaluation of an earlier version of this paper.
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Mondor, T.A. A transient processing deficit following selection of an auditory target. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 5, 305–311 (1998). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03212956
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