title: Inhibition of return in the archer fish.
abstract: Inhibition of return is the inhibitory tagging of recently attended locations or objects. It was previously suggested that inhibition of return is a foraging facilitator in visual search. Inhibition of return was first discovered in humans and was demonstrated also in monkeys, yet it has never been demonstrated in non-primates. Here we report the presence of inhibition of return in the archer fish, which shoots down prey on overhanging vegetation, using squirts of water spouted from its mouth. Moreover, we find similar attentional effects for fish as for human participants. Our results show that the generation of inhibition of return does not require a fully developed cortex and strengthen the view that inhibition of return functions as a foraging facilitator.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel.
authors.forename: Shai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gabay
authors.forename: Tali
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Leibovich
authors.forename: Avi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ben-Simon
authors.forename: Avishai
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Henik
authors.forename: Ronen
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Segev
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001288:Attention; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005399:Fishes / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans
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