Open AccessFacilitation of return in voluntary orienting to visual attributes 1
Author(s) -
OKUBO MATIA,
MUGISHIMA YOSUKE,
MISAWA GORO
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
japanese psychological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.392
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5884
pISSN - 0021-5368
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5884.2005.00296.x
Subject(s) - facilitation , inhibition of return , orienting response , psychology , stimulus (psychology) , turnover , cognitive psychology , visual attention , neuroscience , cognition , habituation , management , economics
The present study examined the effects of voluntary and automatic orienting after a relatively long interval in an attentional cueing paradigm. Facilitation of return was observed after the voluntary orienting to a designated color (Experiment 1) and motion direction (Experiment 2), whereas inhibition of return was observed after the automatic orienting to an abrupt stimulus onset (Experiment 1). These results suggest that the voluntary orienting to a visual attribute modulates subsequent processes differently from the automatic orienting to an abrupt onset. In the voluntary orienting to visual attributes, it would be advantageous to return attention to the previously attended location, which is a potential source of information.