Tipper S P, Weaver B, Watson F L
University of Wales
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 1996 Oct;22(5):1289-93. doi: 10.1037//0096-1523.22.5.1289.
J. Pratt and R.A. Abrams (1995) reported that the inhibition of return of attention is found only for the most recently attended of 2 cued locations. This study does not dispute their findings, but suggests that a more ecologically valid experiment would have more than 2 possible target locations. Twelve male students participated in an experiment in which the target may occur in 1 of 4 possible locations, after 3 of those locations have been cued exogenously in sequence. Inhibition of return was found for each of the cued locations. This result suggests that inhibition may be an important mechanism for aiding visual search in complex environments.
J.普拉特和R.A.艾布拉姆斯（1995年）报告称，注意返回抑制仅在两个提示位置中最近被注意到的位置出现。本研究并不质疑他们的发现，但表明一个更符合生态学效度的实验会有超过两个可能的目标位置。12名男学生参与了一项实验，其中目标可能出现在4个可能位置中的1个，在其中3个位置依次被外部提示之后。在每个被提示的位置都发现了注意返回抑制。这一结果表明，抑制可能是在复杂环境中辅助视觉搜索的一种重要机制。
