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When nonpredictive exogenous visual cues are used to reflexively orient covert visual spatial attention, the initial early facilitation for detecting stimuli at cued versus uncued spatial locations develops into inhibition by 300 msec following the cue, a pattern referred to asinhibition of return (IOR). Experiments were carried out comparing the magnitude and time course for development of IOR effects when manual versus saccadic responses were required. The results showed that both manual and saccadic responses result in equivalent amounts of facilitation following initial exposure to a spatial cue. However, IOR developed more quickly for saccadic responses, such that, at certain cue-target SO As, saccadic responses to targets were inhibited, whereas manual responses were still facilitated. The findings are interpreted in terms of a premotor theory of visual attention.
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This work was supported in part by grants from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) and the Scottish Rite Foundation to K.A.B, and by NARSAD, McDonnell-Pew, and the Scottish Rite Foundation to A.B.S.
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Briand, K.A., Larrison, A.L. & Sereno, A.B. Inhibition of return in manual and saccadic response systems. Perception & Psychophysics 62, 1512–1524 (2000). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03212152
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