Zu Guangyao, Wang Jiaqi, Liu Xiaoyuan, Wang Aijun, Zhang Ming
Department of Psychology, Research Center for Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China.
Suzhou Fengqiao Central Primary School, Suzhou, 215011, China.
Cogn Process. 2025 May 23. doi: 10.1007/s10339-025-01278-5.
Inhibition of return (IOR) refers to a phenomenon that individuals respond more slowly when the target is presented in the previously cued location in a cue-target paradigm. Although there is a large amount of evidence to support the "reorienting hypothesis" of IOR, it is still continuously challenged in the visual single-modal domain. However, it is unclear whether the occurrence of IOR under cross-modality is consistent with the reorienting hypothesis. In the present study, we used a variant of the cue-target paradigm to investigate the effect of attentional orienting as modulated by the central reorienting cue on IOR within the visual modality (Experiment 1) and across auditory-visual modalities (Experiment 2). The results showed that IOR triggered by the peripheral cue and attentional orienting triggered by the central reorienting cue directionality occurred in both the visual single-modal condition and the auditory-visual cross-modal condition, but there was no interaction between them. These results indicated that attentional reorienting may not be the cause of IOR in either single-modal or cross-modal auditory-visual conditions.
返回抑制（IOR）是指在线索-目标范式中，当目标出现在先前提示的位置时，个体的反应会更慢的一种现象。尽管有大量证据支持IOR的“重新定向假说”，但在视觉单模态领域它仍不断受到挑战。然而，跨模态下IOR的发生是否与重新定向假说一致尚不清楚。在本研究中，我们使用了线索-目标范式的一个变体，来研究由中央重新定向线索调节的注意定向对视觉模态内（实验1）和跨听觉-视觉模态（实验2）的IOR的影响。结果表明，外周线索触发的IOR和中央重新定向线索方向性触发的注意定向在视觉单模态条件和听觉-视觉跨模态条件下均会出现，但它们之间没有交互作用。这些结果表明，在单模态或跨模态听觉-视觉条件下，注意重新定向可能不是IOR的原因。
