The eccentricity effect of inhibition of return is resistant to practice

Yan Bao; Tilmann Sander; Lutz Trahms; Ernst Pöppel; Quan Lei; Bin Zhou

doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2011.06.003

The eccentricity effect of inhibition of return is resistant to practice

Yan Bao, Tilmann Sander, Lutz Trahms, Ernst Pöppel, Quan Lei, Bin Zhou

Psychology (Twin Cities)

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Abstract

Inhibition of return (IOR) refers to a delayed responding to targets appeared at previously cued location relative to an uncued novel location. In a recent study, Bao and Pöppel [1] reported a functional dissociation of inhibitory processing in the visual field with much stronger IOR magnitude in the far periphery relative to the perifoveal visual field up to 15° eccentricity. The present study aimed to examine whether this effect is sensitive to participant experience or practice. Consistent with previous findings, our data demonstrated a larger IOR magnitude at 21° relative to 7° stimulus eccentricity. More importantly, no practice-related IOR magnitude changes were observed for both perifoveal and peripheral stimuli, although response times did decrease significantly with practice. These results suggest that the eccentricity effect of IOR is a robust phenomenon which is resistant to practice.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	47-51
Number of pages	5
Journal	Neuroscience Letters
Volume	500
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2011.06.003
State	Published - Aug 1 2011

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This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 30670703 ) and the Berlin Neuroimaging Center ( BMBF 01 GO 0208 BNIC ). B. Zhou was supported by Bayerische Forschungsstiftung.

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Attention
Inhibition of return
Practice
Stimulus eccentricity
Visual field

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