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"Inhibition of return' without visual input

W C Schmidt1

  • 1Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. wcs@or.psychology.dal.ca

Neuropsychologia
|October 1, 1996
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Inhibition of return (IOR) occurs in auditory environments, delaying response times to cued locations even without visual input. This auditory IOR effect diminishes with greater spatial distance between cues and targets.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Auditory Perception

Background:

  • Inhibition of return (IOR) is a phenomenon where response times (RT) are delayed for stimuli at recently cued locations.
  • Typically studied in the visual domain, IOR's sensory modality dependence is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether manual RT inhibition occurs in the auditory domain without visual input.
  • To examine the influence of spatial distance and hemifield presentation on auditory IOR.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments utilized an auditory analog of the visual IOR paradigm with 26 undergraduates.
  • Participants prepared saccades to auditory cues with eyes closed, followed by target presentation at cued or uncued locations.

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Main Results:

  • An auditory IOR effect, characterized by RT delay, was observed at cued locations across a 1400 ms timecourse.
  • Auditory IOR magnitude decreased with increasing spatial distance between the auditory cue and target.
  • Targets in the same hemispace as the cue showed inhibition, while contralateral targets exhibited facilitation.

Conclusions:

  • Inhibition of return is capable of operating in the auditory domain, independent of visual input.
  • Findings suggest that perceptual representations of visual input are not the sole source of IOR.
  • The results support the existence of cross-modal or modality-general mechanisms underlying IOR.