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Does attention follow a rhythm?

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Recent studies have suggested that attention switches rhythmically, with up to eight cycles per second. An article by Brookshire calls these results into question, showing that widely used methods in the field do not separate rhythmic from arrhythmic structure.

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Fig. 1: Schematic of general experimental approach to exploring temporal structure in behaviour.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

    Malte Wöstmann

  2. Center of Brain, Behaviour, and Metabolism, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

    Malte Wöstmann

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Wöstmann, M. Does attention follow a rhythm?. Nat Hum Behav 6, 1192–1193 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01365-z

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