As psychological research has improved immensely since Broadbent's time, more sophisticated measures indicate that we do have an attentional filter, though it is integrated into a broader cognitive system . which is broken down into iconic memory and echoic memory.
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Bodhipaksa criticizes Blackmore's inference from becoming aware of sounds that happened in the past to assuming that her consciousness of them is " an attribution made later " because he points out that sounds can persist in echoic memory for 4 seconds : " A lot of Blackmore's descriptions of mindfulness seem to have involved paying attention to what s in echoic memory rather than what she was currently listening to . " Finally, Bodhipaksa notes that some of Blackmore's use of terminology was loose and may reflect " a'feeling'of significance that hasn't been fully thought out or articulated ."
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Bodhipaksa criticizes Blackmore's inference from becoming aware of sounds that happened in the past to assuming that her consciousness of them is " an attribution made later " because he points out that sounds can persist in echoic memory for 4 seconds : " A lot of Blackmore's descriptions of mindfulness seem to have involved paying attention to what s in echoic memory rather than what she was currently listening to . " Finally, Bodhipaksa notes that some of Blackmore's use of terminology was loose and may reflect " a'feeling'of significance that hasn't been fully thought out or articulated ."
