Oculocentric coding of inhibited eye movements to recently attended locations

Results are reported for experiments that examined eye movements directed t oward recently cued objects. In 1 experiment participants were slower to in itiate saccades toward the earlier location of an object that had been cued , even though the cued object had subsequently moved away from that locatio n. Other experiments involved exploring the reference frame within which th e inhibited eye movements are encoded. These experiments revealed that the eye movement that is inhibited is encoded in an oculocentric-rather than an environmental-reference frame. However, simple detection as indexed by man ual keypress responses is encoded in an environmental reference frame. The results have implications for inhibition of return, for the link between ey e movements and attention, and for the nature of the spatial reference fram es in which both covert and overt movements of attention are encoded.