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- Title
Contingent capture and inhibition of return: a comparison of mechanisms.
- Authors
Prinzmetal, William; Taylor, Jordan; Myers, Loretta; Nguyen-Espino, Jacqueline
- Abstract
We investigated the cause(s) of two effects associated with involuntary attention in the spatial cueing task: contingent capture and inhibition of return (IOR). Previously, we found that there were two mechanisms of involuntary attention in this task: (1) a (serial) search mechanism that predicts a larger cueing effect in reaction time with more display locations and (2) a decision (threshold) mechanism that predicts a smaller cueing effect with more display locations (Prinzmetal et al. ). In the present study, contingent capture and IOR had completely different patterns of results when we manipulated the number of display locations and the presence of distractors. Contingent capture was best described by a search model, whereas the inhibition of return was best described by a decision model. Furthermore, we fit a linear ballistic accumulator model to the results and IOR was accounted for by a change of threshold, whereas the results from contingent capture experiments could not be fit with a change of threshold and were better fit by a search model.
- Subjects
RESPONSE inhibition; ATTENTION; REACTION time; DISTRACTION; NEURAL stimulation; SHORT-term memory; BRAIN research
- Publication
Experimental Brain Research, 2011, Vol 214, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
0014-4819
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00221-011-2805-x