Contextual Similarity Between Successive Targets Modulates Inhibition of Return in the Target-Target Paradigm

Inhibition of return (IOR) refers to slower responses to a target presented at a previously cued vs. uncued location. The present study investigated the role of memory retrieval in IOR by manipulating the contextual similarity between two successive targets in the target-target IOR paradigm. Success...

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Published inFrontiers in psychology Vol. 11; p. 2052
Main Authors Chao, Hsuan-Fu, Kuo, Chun-Yu, Chen, Makayla S., Hsiao, Fei-Shan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Frontiers Media S.A 08.09.2020
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contextual similarity
cuing
inhibition of return
memory retrieval
Psychology
response time distribution
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Summary:Inhibition of return (IOR) refers to slower responses to a target presented at a previously cued vs. uncued location. The present study investigated the role of memory retrieval in IOR by manipulating the contextual similarity between two successive targets in the target-target IOR paradigm. Successive targets were presented in either the same color (same-context condition) or different colors (different-context condition). Results of two experiments showed that IOR was greater in the same-context than the different-context condition. In addition, Experiment 2 showed that this context effect occurs with long response times (RTs), suggesting that memory retrieval, which requires time to manifest, plays an important role in IOR.
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Reviewed by: Daryl Wilson, Queen’s University, Canada; Aijun Wang, Soochow University, China
This article was submitted to Cognition, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology
Edited by: Richard A. Abrams, Washington University in St. Louis, United States
ISSN:1664-1078
1664-1078
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02052