Inhibition of return is a foraging facilitator in visual search

被引:464
作者
Klein, RM [1 ]
MacInnes, WJ
机构
[1] Dalhousie Univ, Dept Psychol, Halifax, NS B3H 4J1, Canada
[2] Dalhousie Univ, Fac Comp Sci, Halifax, NS, Canada
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
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D O I
10.1111/1467-9280.00166
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Using overt orienting, participants searched a complex visual scene for a camouflaged target (Waldo from the "Where's Waldo? (TM)" books). After several saccades, we presented an uncamouflaged probe (black disk) while removing or maintaining the scene, and participants were required to locate this probe by foventing it. Inhibition of return was observed as a relative increase in the rime required to locate these probes when they were in the general region of a previous fixation, but only when the search array I remained present. Perhaps also reflecting inhibition of return, preprobe saccades showed a strong directional bias away from a previously fixated region. Together with recent studies that replicate the finding of inhibition at distracter locations following serial bur not parallel visual search-so long as the search array remains visible-these darn strongly support the proposal that inhibition of return functions to facilitate visual search by inhibiting orienting to previously examined locations.
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页码:346 / 352
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