Rapid Serial Visual Presentation - Drawbacks

Drawbacks

  • Repetition Blindness – When presented with a sequence of visual stimuli in rapid succession at the same location, readers often fail to detect words prominently repeated in a series, thus potentially missing the main ideas of the text.
  • Attentional blink – The mind focuses longer on certain words which may strike an emotional chord, which can put the reader behind in a sequence.
  • Temporal masking – Certain words when being read aloud in a series may evoke a striking sound or response that makes inaudible the mental articulation of the following word.

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