When do response-related episodic retrieval effects co-occur with inhibition of return?

Hilchey, Matthew, Rajsic, Jason and Pratt, Jay (2020) When do response-related episodic retrieval effects co-occur with inhibition of return? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82 (6). pp. 3013-3032. ISSN 1943-3921

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02020-3

Abstract

At some point, spatial priming effects more faithfully reflect response selection processes than they do attentional orienting or sensory processes. Findings from the spatial cueing literature suggest that two factors may be critical: (1) the amount of identity processing that is required in order to respond correctly (feature-based response hypothesis), and (2) the amount of spatial processing that is required in order to respond correctly (space-based response hypothesis). To test the first hypothesis, we manipulated whether observers made single keypress detection or two-choice localization responses to serially presented stimuli in peripheral vision and whether stimulus identity information processing was necessary before responding. Responses were always slowest when the target location repeated, consistent with an attentional orienting bias independent of keypress responding (i.e., inhibition of return; IOR). The localization procedure revealed a subtle additional cost for changing the target location and repeating a response, consistent with a response-related episodic retrieval effect predicted by the Theory of Event Coding (TEC). Neither effect was modulated by the need to discriminate features. To test the second hypothesis, we made spatial processing indispensable to response selection by requiring a decision between a detection and localization response, depending on where the target appeared. IOR was eliminated for detection, but not localization, responses, consistent with the TEC. Collectively, the findings suggest that the amount of space-based, but not feature-based, processing that is required to determine a response is responsible for the response retrieval effects that can co-occur with IOR.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Attention, space-based, Inhibition of return, Priming
Subjects: C800 Psychology
Department: Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Psychology
Depositing User: Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited: 03 Apr 2020 14:40
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2021 16:00
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/42685

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