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Klein (1988) reported thatinhibitory tagging (i.e., inhibition of return in visual search) made reaction times for the detection of small probes increase at locations where there had previously been rejected items in serial visual search. It is reasonable that the attended and rejected locations are inhibited. However, subsequent studies did not support Klein’s idea. In these studies, inhibitory tagging was tested after removing the items from the search tasks. The paradigms in these studies were not appropriate for testing an object-based inhibitory effect because the objects (i.e., items) were removed from the display. In the present study, we found that evidence of inhibitory tagging could be observed only when the items of the search tasks were maintained until the responses for the small probes were made. This appeared to be an object-based effect.
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This research was supported by the original Industrial Technology Research and Development Promotion program from the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of Japan (8F-022-1).
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Takeda, Y., Yagi, A. Inhibitory tagging in visual search can be found if search stimuli remain visible. Perception & Psychophysics 62, 927–934 (2000). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03212078
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