TY - JOUR
T1 - Inhibition of return
T2 - Support for generality of the phenomenon
AU - Cheal, Marylou
AU - Chastain, Garvin
PY - 1999/10/1
Y1 - 1999/10/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0033209983
U2 - 10.1080/00221309909595372
DO - 10.1080/00221309909595372
M3 - Article
C2 - 10555866
AN - SCOPUS:0033209983
SN - 0022-1309
VL - 126
SP - 375
EP - 390
JO - Journal of General Psychology
JF - Journal of General Psychology
IS - 4
ER -