Inhibition of return: A phenomenon in search of a definition and a theoretical framework

Dukewich, Kristie R.; Klein, Raymond M.

doi:10.3758/s13414-015-0835-3

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“…After attention is directed elsewhere, the originally cued location will be inhibited. The inhibitory effect reaches its peak 300-400 ms after the onset of the invalid cue (Dukewich & Klein, 2015;Klein, 1988).…”

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Measuring the time course of selection during visual search

Palmer

Wert

Horowitz

et al. 2018

Atten Percept Psychophys

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In visual search tasks, observers can guide their attention towards items in the visual field that share features with the target item. In this series of studies, we examined the time course of guidance toward a subset of items that have the same color as the target item. Landolt Cs were placed on 16 colored disks. Fifteen distractor Cs had gaps facing up or down while one target C had a gap facing left or right. Observers searched for the target C and reported which side contained the gap as quickly as possible. In the absence of other information, observers must search at random through the Cs. However, during the trial, the disks changed colors. Twelve disks were now of one color and four disks were of another color. Observers knew that the target C would always be in the smaller color set. The experimental question was how quickly observers could guide their attention to the smaller color set. Results indicate that observers could not make instantaneous use of color information to guide the search, even when they knew which two colors would be appearing on every trial. In each study, it took participants 200-300 ms to fully utilize the color information once presented. Control studies replicated the finding with more saturated colors and with colored C stimuli (rather than Cs on colored disks). We conclude that segregation of a display by color for the purposes of guidance takes 200-300 ms to fully develop.

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Measuring the time course of selection during visual search

Palmer

Wert

Horowitz

et al. 2018

Atten Percept Psychophys

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“…In spatial orienting paradigms, participants' visual attention is cued to one spatial location, and they are subsequently asked to respond to the same or a different spatial location. A substantial literature shows that people are slower to return their attention back to a location that it has previously occupied (e.g., Dukewich & Klein, 2015;Klein, 2000); this is called the inhibition of return (IOR) effect (Posner, Rafal, Choate, & Vaughan, 1985). It is argued that IOR might play an adaptive role promoting efficient visual search by biasing attention toward novelty and away from previously attended objects or locations (Klein & MacInnes, 1999).…”

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“…We will end with a note of caution. The underlying mechanisms of IOR are still debated (Dukewich & Klein, 2015;Klein, 2000). While some researchers have argued that IOR affects information processing at earlier attentional stages (e.g., Posner et al, 1985;Prime & Ward, 2004), others have argued that IOR affects information processing at later stages, when decisions are selected (e.g., Prinzmetal, Taylor, Myers, & Nguyen-Espino, 2011;Taylor & Klein, 1998).…”

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Social Beliefs and Visual Attention: How the Social Relevance of a Cue Influences Spatial Orienting

Göbel¹,

Tufft

Richardson

2017

Cognitive Science

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We are highly tuned to each other's visual attention. Perceiving the eye or hand movements of another person can influence the timing of a saccade or the reach of our own. However, the explanation for such spatial orienting in interpersonal contexts remains disputed. Is it due to the social appearance of the cue—a hand or an eye—or due to its social relevance—a cue that is connected to another person with attentional and intentional states? We developed an interpersonal version of the Posner spatial cueing paradigm. Participants saw a cue and detected a target at the same or a different location, while interacting with an unseen partner. Participants were led to believe that the cue was either connected to the gaze location of their partner or was generated randomly by a computer (Experiment 1), and that their partner had higher or lower social rank while engaged in the same or a different task (Experiment 2). We found that spatial cue‐target compatibility effects were greater when the cue related to a partner's gaze. This effect was amplified by the partner's social rank, but only when participants believed their partner was engaged in the same task. Taken together, this is strong evidence in support of the idea that spatial orienting is interpersonally attuned to the social relevance of the cue—whether the cue is connected to another person, who this person is, and what this person is doing—and does not exclusively rely on the social appearance of the cue. Visual attention is not only guided by the physical salience of one's environment but also by the mental representation of its social relevance.

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“…In a review such as this one, it is prudent to begin by noting that there is no widespread agreement about the nature of IOR [4]. The source of some disagreements (as anticipated by Klein [3]) may be in overextension(s) of the term.…”

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What Neuroscientific Studies Tell Us about Inhibition of Return

Satel

Wilson

Klein

2019

Vision

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An inhibitory aftermath of orienting, inhibition of return (IOR), has intrigued scholars since its discovery about 40 years ago. Since then, the phenomenon has been subjected to a wide range of neuroscientific methods and the results of these are reviewed in this paper. These include direct manipulations of brain structures (which occur naturally in brain damage and disease or experimentally as in TMS and lesion studies) and measurements of brain activity (in humans using EEG and fMRI and in animals using single unit recording). A variety of less direct methods (e.g., computational modeling, developmental studies, etc.) have also been used. The findings from this wide range of methods support the critical role of subcortical and cortical oculomotor pathways in the generation and nature of IOR.

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Inhibition of return: A phenomenon in search of a definition and a theoretical framework

Cited by 40 publications

References 49 publications

Measuring the time course of selection during visual search

Measuring the time course of selection during visual search

Social Beliefs and Visual Attention: How the Social Relevance of a Cue Influences Spatial Orienting

What Neuroscientific Studies Tell Us about Inhibition of Return

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