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On the role of eye movement monitoring and discouragement on inhibition of return in a go/no-go task
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Hilchey, MD and Hashish, M and MacLean, GH and Satel, J and Ivanoff, J and Klein, RM, On the role of eye movement monitoring and discouragement on inhibition of return in a go/no-go task, Vision research, 96 pp. 133-139. ISSN 0042-6989 (2014) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
DOI: doi:10.1016/j.visres.2013.11.008
Abstract
Inhibition of return (IOR) most often describes the finding of increased response times to cued as compared to uncued targets in the standard covert orienting paradigm. A perennial question in the IOR literature centers on whether the effect of IOR is on motoric/decision-making processes (output-based IOR), attentional/perceptual processes (input-based IOR), or both. Recent data converge on the idea that IOR is an output-based effect when eye movements are required or permitted whereas IOR is an input-based effect when eye movements are monitored and actively discouraged. The notion that the effects of IOR may be fundamentally different depending on the activation state of the oculomotor system has been challenged by several studies demonstrating that IOR exists as an output-, or output- plus input-based effect in simple keypress tasks not requiring oculomotor responses. Problematically, experiments in which keypress responses are required to visual events rarely use eye movement monitoring let alone the active discouragement of eye movement errors. Here, we return to an experimental method implemented by Ivanoff and Klein (2001) whose results demonstrated that IOR affected output-based processes when, ostensibly, only keypress responses occurred. Unlike Ivanoff and Klein, however, we assiduously monitor and discourage eye movements. We demonstrate that actively discouraging eye movements in keypress tasks changes the form of IOR from output- to input-based and, as such, we strongly encourage superior experimental control over or consideration of the contribution of eye movement activity in simple keypress tasks exploring IOR.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | attention |
| Research Division: | Psychology |
| Research Group: | Cognitive and computational psychology |
| Research Field: | Memory and attention |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in psychology |
| UTAS Author: | Satel, J (Dr Jason Satel) |
| ID Code: | 111172 |
| Year Published: | 2014 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 22 |
| Deposited By: | Psychology |
| Deposited On: | 2016-09-01 |
| Last Modified: | 2017-10-31 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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