Klein R
Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Nature. 1988 Aug 4;334(6181):430-1. doi: 10.1038/334430a0.
Two visuospatial phenomena, serial search and inhibition of return, have recently gained the attention of scientists from such diverse disciplines as neuroscience, artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology. A linear increase in search latency with increasing display size has been assumed to reflect serial focused attention to each item in the display. A delay in the detection of a signal in a previously attended location has been assumed to reflect an inhibitory process that may be used to prevent attention from returning to the same stimulus. The following study of human performance supports these assumptions and, by demonstrating that inhibition of return operates in serial search, presumably to improve search efficiency, provides a functional link between these two phenomena.
两种视觉空间现象，即序列搜索和返回抑制，最近引起了神经科学、人工智能和认知心理学等不同学科科学家的关注。搜索潜伏期随显示大小增加而线性增加，这被认为反映了对显示中每个项目的序列集中注意力。在先前注意过的位置检测信号出现延迟，这被认为反映了一种抑制过程，该过程可能用于防止注意力回到同一刺激上。以下关于人类表现的研究支持了这些假设，并且通过证明返回抑制在序列搜索中起作用，大概是为了提高搜索效率，为这两种现象提供了功能上的联系。
