Inhibition of Return in Perception and Action

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• Visual Cognition

Abstract

Inhibition of return (IOR) slows responses to targets appearing at previously cued spatial locations. A key theoretical question is whether IOR reflects a single attentional mechanism or separate processes depending on the task demands. This study compared IOR effects across perceptual (discrimination) and action (reaching/keypress) tasks in a series of experiments. The results revealed that IOR manifests reliably across both response modes, but with quantitative differences in magnitude and time-course, suggesting partially overlapping but distinguishable contributions to perceptual and motor processing. Implications for dual-process theories of attention and visuomotor control are discussed.

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Chang, E., & Ro, T. (2005). Inhibition of return in perception and action. Visual Cognition, 12, 443–472.

@article{Chang2005,
  author  = {Chang, Erik and Ro, Tony},
  year    = {2005},
  title   = {Inhibition of Return in Perception and Action},
  journal = {Visual Cognition},
  volume  = {12},
  pages   = {443--472},
  doi     = {10.1080/13506280444000391}
}