Emotional or “pop-out” blink? - Lindsay Santacroce

This research reinterprets the emotional attentional blink (EAB), arguing that visual distinctiveness, not emotion alone, drives initial attentional capture. Using RSVP experiments, it shows that emotional distractors only impair target detection when they visually pop out. Emotion appears to prolong the effect, making the EAB more accurately a pop-out blink.