A simple model of the attentional blink and its modulation by mental training
Fig 3
When T2 appears immediately after T1 (lag-1, top), their overlap in the first processing stage is maximal, resulting in a stronger reduction of the sensory trace due to the clipping threshold (solid black line). This causes a decrease in the attentional load at the second processing stage (bottom axis) with a corresponding reduction in blinking probability. At lag-2 (bottom), the overlap in the first stage is smaller, resulting in less clipping of the sensory trace and a higher attentional load.