Attentional Pacing and Temporal Capture in Slow Visual Sequences

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“…Duggan and Payne (2009) found no differences between individuals who skimmed text and those who read at normal rates in comprehending less critical aspects of the text. Skelley, Jones, Goodyear, and Roe (2000) found that individuals performed slow reading rates when there was irrelevant information included in a string of visual items using RSVP. Participants in a previous study indicated their main strategy involved actively maintaining specific words from the intelligence report in memory through rehearsal (Proaps & Bliss, 2013).…”

“…Hypothesis 2: Participants presented with content words in the rapid serial visual presentation group would exhibit worse reading comprehension scores compared to participants presented with full sentences in the traditional text presentation group (e.g., Duggan & Payne, 2009;Juola, Ward & McNamara, 1982;Potter, Kroll, & Harris, 1980;Proaps & Bliss, 2013;Russell, et al, 2002;Skelley, Jones, Goodyear, & Roe, 2000).…”

“…Military personnel use technology based on tablets, smartphones, and gaming toolkits. The military has been investigating RSVP of text and images for training for forty years (Boff & Lincoln, 1988;Skelley, Jones, Goodyear & Roe, 2000), but current research has focused on hand held devices as RSVP applications have become available to the public. Russell, James and Cohlmia (2002) found no differences between comprehension of RSVP at a rate of 250 words per minute and a usual hand held device text format.…”