Inhibition of Return: Support for Generality of the Phenomenon
- 1 October 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of General Psychology
- Vol. 126 (4) , 375-390
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309909595372
Abstract
Inhibition of return (IOR), first described in 1984, was considered to be a general phenomenon for ensuring that attention would be allocated to successive stimuli in the environment. In the present research, IOR was expressed in forced-choice identification tasks with either reaction time or accuracy as the dependent measure. Thus, the generality of IOR was supported, because response inhibition cannot explain IOR found with accuracy measures. Concepts from the variable and permeable filters metaphor are used to suggest how changes in attention can change expression of IOR by rapid variation in perceptual threshold.Keywords
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