Inhibitory tagging on randomly moving objects.

Full Abstract

Inhibitory tagging is a process that prevents focal attention from revisiting previously checked items in inefficient searches, facilitating search performance. Recent studies suggested that inhibitory tagging is object rather than location based, but it was unclear whether inhibitory tagging operates on moving objects. The present study investigated the tagging effect on moving objects. Participants were asked to search for a moving target among randomly and independently moving distractors. After either efficient or inefficient search, participants performed a probe detection task that measured the inhibitory effect on search items. The inhibitory effect on distractors was observed only after inefficient searches. The present results support the concept of object-based inhibitory tagging.

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Author information

Author/s: Ogawa, Hirokazu (H); Takeda, Yuji (Y); Yagi, Akihiro (A);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Kiwansei Gakuin University, Hyogo, Japan. ogawa(-atsign-)kwansei.ac.jp

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS (Psychol Sci), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Mar; vol 13 (issue 2) : pp 125-9

Dates: Created 2002/04/05; Completed 2002/10/29; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 11933995, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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