Inhibition of return: Dissociating attentional and oculomotor components.
Inhibition of return (IOR) describes a performance decrement for stimuli appearing at recently cued locations. Both attentional and motor processes have been implicated in the IOR effect. The present data reveal a double dissociation between the attentional and motor components of IOR whereby the motor-based component of IOR is present when the response is oculomotor, and the attention-based component of IOR is present when the response is manual. These 2 distinct components should be considered and studied separately, as well as in relation to each other, if a comprehensive theory of IOR is to be achieved. ((c) 2003 APA, all rights reserved)
U British Columbia, Dept of Psychology, Vancouver, BC, Canada. ameliahunt@imag.net
Amelia R
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Hunt
Alan
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Kingstone
D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008606:Mental Processes / Q000502:physiology; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000502:physiology*; D012438:Saccades / Q000502:physiology*