INHIBITION OF RETURN TO SUCCESSIVELY CUED SPATIAL LOCATIONS - COMMENTARY ON PRATT AND ABRAMS (1995)

J. Pratt and R. A. Abrams (1995) reported that the inhibition of retur n of attention is found only for the most recently attended of 2 cued locations. This study does not dispute their findings, but suggests th at a more ecologically valid experiment would have more than 2 possibl e target locations. Twelve male students participated in an experiment in which the target may occur in 1 of 4 possible locations, after 3 o f those locations have been cued exogenously in sequence. Inhibition o f return was found for each of the cued locations. This result suggest s that inhibition may be an important mechanism for aiding visual sear ch in complex environments.