Cue and Target Processing Modulate the Onset of Inhibition of Return

Inhibition of return (IOR) is modulated by task set and appears later in discrimination tasks than in detection tasks. Several hypotheses have been suggested to account for this difference. We tested three of these hypotheses in two experiments by examining the influence of cue and target level of p...

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Published in:Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance 2012-02, Vol.38 (1), p.42-52
Main Authors: Gabay, Shai, Chica, Ana B, Charras, Pom, Funes, Maria J, Henik, Avishai
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive Processes
College Students
Cues
Cuing
Detection
Difficulty Level
Discrimination
Discrimination (Psychology) - physiology
Discrimination Learning
Experimental Psychology
Foreign Countries
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Human
Humans
Hypothesis Testing
Information processing
Inhibition
Inhibition (Psychology)
Israel
Neuropsychological Tests
Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology
Perception
Psychological Studies
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Response Inhibition
Responses
Sensory perception
Space Perception - physiology
Spain
Task Performance and Analysis
Vision
Visual Discrimination
Visual Perception
Visual Stimuli
Young Adult
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Summary:Inhibition of return (IOR) is modulated by task set and appears later in discrimination tasks than in detection tasks. Several hypotheses have been suggested to account for this difference. We tested three of these hypotheses in two experiments by examining the influence of cue and target level of processing on the onset of IOR. In the first experiment, participants were required to respond to both the cue and target. The pattern of results showed that deeper processing of the cue or target advanced the onset of IOR. In the second experiment, participants were not required to respond to the cue and a reverse pattern of results emerged, which replicated the general findings in cuing tasks. We conclude that in more-demanding tasks, an additional process slows down the processing of a nonpredictive cue in order to enhance the processing of the target. (Contains 4 figures, 1 footnote and 2 tables.)
ISSN:0096-1523
1939-1277
DOI:10.1037/a0023675