ABSTRACT
We introduce a connectionist model that reproduces the attentional blink effect during a rapid serial visual presentation task. The model is composed of two layers, a competitive one that acts as an identification layer and a recurrent one that acts like short term memory where the main mechanisms is the presence of an inhibition gate and a neural fatigue. Simulations show that the model generates data that are as variables as the one obtained from human participants and the mean performance is identical to the performance obtained by human participants.
