Exogenous Cuing of Distractor Location Facilitates Location Selection by Inhibition of Return

2009 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsuan-Fu Chao
Keyword(s):  
Inhibition Of Return ◽  
Target Selection ◽  
Attention Capture ◽  
Selection Task ◽  
Distractor Location ◽  
Manual Response ◽  
Location Selection ◽  
Exogenous Cuing ◽  
Exogenous Cue

Attention capture by an exogenous cue can result in slowed responses to a target, which appeared at that cued location later. This is the phenomenon of inhibition of return (IOR). In the current study, the effect of IOR on performance in a location selection task was studied. A target and a distractor were presented at the same time, and the participants were instructed to indicate the location of the target by manual response. The results showed that it took longer to respond to the target at the cued location. More importantly, it took a shorter time to respond to the target when the distractor was presented at the cued location. These findings support the idea that IOR can facilitate performance in a target selection task if the distractor location is cued.

scholarly journals Effects of Force Feedback and Distractor Location on a CDTI Target Selection Task

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 2395-2402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin J. Monk ◽  
Thomas Z. Strybel ◽  
Kim-Phuong L. Vu ◽  
Panadda Marayong ◽  
Vernol Battiste
Keyword(s):  
Force Feedback ◽  
Target Selection ◽  
Selection Task ◽  
Distractor Location

Spatial suppression due to statistical regularities is driven by distractor suppression not by target activation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Failing ◽  
Benchi Wang ◽  
Jan Theeuwes
Keyword(s):  
High Probability ◽  
Target Location ◽  
Target Selection ◽  
Visual Space ◽  
Alternative Interpretation ◽  
Distractor Location ◽  
Target Presentation ◽  
Statistical Regularities ◽  
Low Probability ◽  
Presentation Experiment

Where and what we attend to is not only determined by what we are currently looking for but also by what we have encountered in the past. Recent studies suggest that biasing the probability by which distractors appear at locations in visual space may lead to attentional suppression of high probability distractor locations which effectively reduces capture by a distractor but also impairs target selection at this location. However, in many of these studies introducing a high probability distractor location was tantamount to increasing the probability of the target appearing in any of the other locations (i.e. the low probability distractor locations). Here, we investigate an alternative interpretation of previous findings according to which attentional selection at high probability distractor locations is not suppressed. Instead, selection at low probability distractor locations is facilitated. In two visual search tasks, we found no evidence for this hypothesis: neither when there was only a bias in target presentation but no bias in distractor presentation (Experiment 1), nor when there was only a bias in distractor presentation but no bias in target presentation (Experiment 2). We conclude that recurrent presentation of a distractor in a specific location leads to attentional suppression of that location through a mechanism that is unaffected by any regularities regarding the target location.

Prey pursuit strategy of Japanese horseshoe bats during an in-flight target-selection task

2014 ◽  
Vol 200 (9) ◽  
pp. 799-809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuki Kinoshita ◽  
Daiki Ogata ◽  
Yoshiaki Watanabe ◽  
Hiroshi Riquimaroux ◽  
Tetsuo Ohta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Target Selection ◽  
Selection Task ◽  
Pursuit Strategy ◽  
Horseshoe Bats

scholarly journals To look or not to look: Subliminal abrupt-onset cues influence constrained free-choice saccades

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seema Gorur Prasad ◽  
Ramesh Kumar Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Visual Field ◽  
Eye Movement ◽  
Free Choice ◽  
Abrupt Onset ◽  
Saccade Latency ◽  
Attention Capture ◽  
Movement Behaviour ◽  
Manual Response ◽  
Attentional Control Settings ◽  
Task Relevancy

Subliminal cues have been shown to capture attention and modulate manual response behaviour but their impact on eye movement behaviour is not well-studied. In two experiments, we examined if subliminal cues influence constrained free-choice saccades and if this influence is under strategic control as a function of task-relevancy of the cues. On each trial, a display containing four filled circles at the centre of each quadrant was shown. A central coloured circle indicated the relevant visual field on each trial (Up or Down in Experiment 1; Left or Right in Experiment 2). Next, abrupt-onset cues were presented for 16 ms at one of the four locations. Participants were then asked to freely choose and make a saccade to one of the two target circles in the relevant visual field. The analysis of the frequency of saccades, saccade endpoint deviation and saccade latency revealed a significant influence of the relevant subliminal cues on saccadic decisions. Latency data showed reduced capture by spatially-irrelevant cues under some conditions. These results indicate that spatial attentional control settings as defined in our study could modulate the influence of subliminal abrupt-onset cues on eye movement behaviour. We situate the findings of this study in the attention-capture debate and discuss the implications for the subliminal cueing literature.   

scholarly journals Saccadic and manual response time data on inhibition of return during and after a visual search

Data in Brief ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 107565
Author(s):  
Margit Höfler ◽  
Sebastian A. Bauch ◽  
Katrin Liebergesell ◽  
Iain D. Gilchrist ◽  
Anja Ischebeck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Search ◽  
Response Time ◽  
Inhibition Of Return ◽  
Response Time Data ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Manual Response

scholarly journals The pupillary light response reflects exogenous attention and inhibition of return

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastiaan Mathôt ◽  
Edwin S. Dalmaijer ◽  
Jonathan Grainger ◽  
Stefan Van der Stigchel
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movement ◽  
Behavioral Inhibition ◽  
Inhibition Of Return ◽  
Light Response ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Exogenous Attention ◽  
Pupillary Light ◽  
Bright Side ◽  
Exogenous Cue ◽  
Behavioral Phenomenon

Here we show that the pupillary light response reflects exogenous (involuntary) shifts of attention and inhibition of return. Participants fixated in the center of a display that was divided into a bright and a dark half. An exogenous cue attracted attention to the bright or dark side of the display. Initially, the pupil constricted when the bright, as compared to the dark side of the display was cued, reflecting a shift of attention towards the exogenous cue. Crucially, this pattern reversed about one second after cue presentation. This later-occurring, relative dilation (when the bright side was cued) reflected disengagement from the previously attended location, analogous to the behavioral phenomenon of inhibition of return. Indeed, we observed a strong correlation between 'pupillary inhibition' and behavioral inhibition of return. We conclude that the pupillary light response is a complex eye movement that reflects how we selectively parse and interpret visual input.

Temporal Dynamics of Reflexive Attention Shifts: A Dual-Stream Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Exploration

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond M. Klein ◽  
Bruce Dick
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Serial Visual Presentation ◽  
Inhibition Of Return ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Visual Presentation ◽  
Uncued Location ◽  
Temporal Precision ◽  
Reflexive Attention ◽  
Unique Event ◽  
Exogenous Cuing ◽  
Attention Shifts

We combined a prototypical exogenous cuing procedure with rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) to provide a precise characterization of the temporal dynamics of reflexive attention shifts. The novel paradigm thus created has several useful properties, most notably that the physical presentation of the target is neither an onset nor a unique event and that temporal precision is provided without the requirement for a speeded response. A biphasic pattern was observed, with early benefits followed by later costs (inhibition of return) at the cued location relative to the uncued location. The finding of inhibition of return in this paradigm disproves the assertion that inhibition of return is merely a reluctance to respond in the target's direction. It may be partly that, but encoding mechanisms linked to attention must also be involved.

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