Neural correlates of spatial and non-spatial inhibition of return (IOR) in attentional orienting

AbstractInhibition of return (IOR) refers to the slower response to targets appearing on the same side as the cue (valid locations) than to targets appearing on the opposite side as the cue (invalid locations). Previous behaviour studies have found that the visual IOR is larger than the audiovisual IOR when focusing on both visual and auditory modalities. Utilising the high temporal resolution of the event-related potential (ERP) technique we explored the possible neural correlates with the behaviour IOR difference between visual and audiovisual targets. The behavioural results revealed that the visual IOR was larger than the audiovisual IOR. The ERP results showed that the visual IOR effect was generated from the P1 and N2 components, while the audiovisual IOR effect was derived only from the P3 component. Multisensory integration (MSI) of audiovisual targets occurred on the P1, N1 and P3 components, which may offset the reduced perceptual processing due to audiovisual IOR. The results of early and late differences in the neural processing of the visual IOR and audiovisual IOR imply that the two target types may have different inhibitory orientation mechanisms.

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Interactive effects of citalopram and serotonin transporter genotype on neural correlates of response inhibition and attentional orienting

NeuroImage ◽

10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.04.064 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 116 ◽

pp. 59-67 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Adrian G. Fischer ◽

Tanja Endrass ◽

Ingrid Goebel ◽

Martin Reuter ◽

Christian Montag ◽

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Keyword(s):

Serotonin Transporter ◽

Response Inhibition ◽

Neural Correlates ◽

Interactive Effects ◽

Attentional Orienting ◽

Serotonin Transporter Genotype

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Neural correlates of endogenous attention, exogenous attention and inhibition of return in touch

European Journal of Neuroscience ◽

10.1111/ejn.12583 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

pp. 2389-2398 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Alexander Jones ◽

Bettina Forster

Keyword(s):

Inhibition Of Return ◽

Neural Correlates ◽

Exogenous Attention ◽

Endogenous Attention

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Neural Correlates of the Preserved Inhibition of Return in Schizophrenia

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0119521 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

pp. e0119521

Author(s):

Yingying Tang ◽

Yan Li ◽

Kaiming Zhuo ◽

Yan Wang ◽

Liwei Liao ◽

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Keyword(s):

Inhibition Of Return ◽

Neural Correlates

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Inhibition of return following instructions to remember and forget

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A ◽

10.1080/02724980443000115 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 58 (4) ◽

pp. 613-629 ◽

Cited By ~ 38

Author(s):

Tracy L. Taylor

Keyword(s):

Recognition Test ◽

Inhibition Of Return ◽

Reaction Times ◽

Directed Forgetting ◽

Attentional Orienting ◽

Peripheral Location ◽

Following Instructions ◽

Preceding Word

Inhibition of return (IOR) refers to slowed responding to a target that appears in the same rather than in a different location as a preceding peripheral onset cue. This study examined IOR as a function of whether the peripheral onset cue was a word that participants were directed to remember or forget. Using a modified item-method directed forgetting paradigm, words appeared one at a time to the left or right, followed by a remember or forget instruction. A target dot was then presented either in the same peripheral location as the preceding word or in a different location; participants made a speeded response to localize this target. Confirming compliance with the memory instructions, recall tests that alternated with blocks of IOR trials (Experiment 1) revealed few intrusions of to-be-forgotten words, and a final recognition test (Experiments 1 and 3) revealed more hits for to-be-remembered words than for to-be-forgotten words. Reaction times to the target dot revealed greater magnitude IOR following to-be-forgotten words than following to-be-remembered words (Experiments 1 and 3). Moreover, when compared to baseline IOR values (Experiment 2), it appeared that this difference resulted from a magnification of IOR following forget instructions and a reduction in IOR following remember instructions. These results demonstrate the usefulness of IOR as an index of memorial processes and suggest that attentional orienting may play a role in the remembering and forgetting of words presented in peripheral visual locations.

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Inhibition of Return, but Not Facilitation, Disappears Under Vigilance Decrease Due to Sleep Deprivation

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027/1618-3169/a000229 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 61 (2) ◽

pp. 99-109 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Diana Martella ◽

Andrea Marotta ◽

Luis J. Fuentes ◽

Maria Casagrande

Keyword(s):

Sleep Deprivation ◽

Inhibition Of Return ◽

Target Location ◽

Reaction Times ◽

Attentional Orienting ◽

Target Interval ◽

Facilitation Effect ◽

Peripheral Cues ◽

Endogenous Component ◽

Phasic Alerting

In this study, we assessed whether unspecific attention processes signaled by general reaction times (RTs), as well as specific facilitatory (validity or facilitation effect) and inhibitory (inhibition of return, IOR) effects involved in the attentional orienting network, are affected by low vigilance due to both circadian factors and sleep deprivation (SD). Eighteen male participants performed a cuing task in which peripheral cues were nonpredictive about the target location and the cue-target interval varied at three levels: 200 ms, 800 ms, and 1,100 ms. Facilitation with the shortest and IOR with the longest cue-target intervals were observed in the baseline session, thus replicating previous related studies. Under SD condition, RTs were generally slower, indicating a reduction in the participants’ arousal level. The inclusion of a phasic alerting tone in several trials partially compensated for the reduction in tonic alertness, but not with the longest cue-target interval. With regard to orienting, whereas the facilitation effect due to reflexive shifts of attention was preserved with sleep loss, the IOR was not observed. These results suggest that the decrease of vigilance produced by SD affects both the compensatory effects of phasic alerting and the endogenous component involved in disengaging attention from the cued location, a requisite for the IOR effect being observed.

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Neural Correlates of the Automatic and Goal-Driven Biases in Orienting Spatial Attention

Journal of Neurophysiology ◽

10.1152/jn.00184.2004 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 92 (3) ◽

pp. 1728-1737 ◽

Cited By ~ 105

Author(s):

Jillian H. Fecteau ◽

Andrew H. Bell ◽

Douglas P. Munoz

Keyword(s):

Superior Colliculus ◽

Spatial Attention ◽

Neural Activity ◽

Inhibition Of Return ◽

Neural Correlates ◽

Behavioral Pattern ◽

Visual Object ◽

Related Activity ◽

Superior Colliculi ◽

New Locations

How do stimuli in the environment interact with the goals of observers? We addressed this question by showing that the relevance of an abruptly appearing visual object (cue) changes how observers orient attention toward a subsequent object (target) and how this target is represented in the activity of neurons in the superior colliculus. Initially after the appearance of the cue, attention is driven to its locus. This capture of attention is followed by a second bias in orienting attention, where observers preferentially orient to new locations in the visual scene—an effect called inhibition of return. In the superior colliculus, these two automatic biases in orienting attention were associated with changes in neural activity linked to the appearance of the target—relatively stronger activity linked to the capture of attention and weaker activity linked to inhibition of return. This behavioral pattern changes when the cue predicts the upcoming location of the target—the benefit associated with the capture of attention is enhanced and inhibition of return is reduced. These goal-driven changes in behavior were associated with an increase in pretarget- and target-related activity. Taken together, the goals of observers modify stimulus-driven changes in neural activity with both signals represented in the salience maps of the superior colliculi.

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Effect of Emotions in a Lexical Decision Task

Swiss Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1024/1421-0185/a000193 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 76 (2) ◽

pp. 71-79 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hélène Maire ◽

Renaud Brochard ◽

Jean-Luc Kop ◽

Vivien Dioux ◽

Daniel Zagar

Keyword(s):

Lexical Decision ◽

Lexical Decision Task ◽

Emotional State ◽

Control Group ◽

Decision Task ◽

Attentional Orienting ◽

Emotional States ◽

Sequence Effect ◽

Emotion Induction ◽

Before And After

Abstract. This study measured the effect of emotional states on lexical decision task performance and investigated which underlying components (physiological, attentional orienting, executive, lexical, and/or strategic) are affected. We did this by assessing participants’ performance on a lexical decision task, which they completed before and after an emotional state induction task. The sequence effect, usually produced when participants repeat a task, was significantly smaller in participants who had received one of the three emotion inductions (happiness, sadness, embarrassment) than in control group participants (neutral induction). Using the diffusion model ( Ratcliff, 1978 ) to resolve the data into meaningful parameters that correspond to specific psychological components, we found that emotion induction only modulated the parameter reflecting the physiological and/or attentional orienting components, whereas the executive, lexical, and strategic components were not altered. These results suggest that emotional states have an impact on the low-level mechanisms underlying mental chronometric tasks.

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