Inhibition of return and response repetition within and between modalities

Inhibition of return (IOR) refers to slower responding to stimuli at previously occupied spatial locations. IOR has been vigorously studied because of its possible deep involvement with attention mechanisms. Although IOR occurs both within and across modalities in several experimental paradigms for...

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Published in:Experimental brain research 2005-11, Vol.167 (1), p.86-94
Main Authors: ROGGEVEEN, Alexa B, PRIME, David J, WARD, Lawrence M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustic Stimulation - methods
Adolescent
Adult
Attention - physiology
Biological and medical sciences
Discrimination (Psychology) - physiology
Ear and associated structures. Auditory pathways and centers. Hearing. Vocal organ. Phonation. Sound production. Echolocation
Eye Movements - physiology
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Inhibition (Psychology)
Male
Multivariate Analysis
Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology
Perception
Photic Stimulation - methods
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychomotor Performance - physiology
Reaction Time - physiology
Time Factors
Vertebrates: nervous system and sense organs
Vision
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Summary:Inhibition of return (IOR) refers to slower responding to stimuli at previously occupied spatial locations. IOR has been vigorously studied because of its possible deep involvement with attention mechanisms. Although IOR occurs both within and across modalities in several experimental paradigms for simple stimulus detection tasks, it has sometimes been difficult to demonstrate in perceptual discrimination tasks. In the preferred target-target paradigm, in which responses are made to a series of targets that vary in spatial location, failure to find IOR could possibly result from mixing of spatial IOR with the facilitating effects of stimulus and/or response repetition on discrimination response times. In this paper we report the first demonstration of auditory/auditory and cross-modality IOR in a target-target paradigm using a discrimination task. Our results show that IOR occurs in this task only on trials on which stimuli and responses are not repeated. These findings present a challenge to purely visual accounts of IOR and support the view that IOR arises within a more general, supra-modal mechanism of attention.
ISSN:0014-4819
1432-1106
DOI:10.1007/s00221-005-0010-5