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We investigated whether inhibition of return (IOR) could be observed in location-based, scene-based, and object-centered frames of reference. IOR was found to move both with a separate cued object (scene-based) and with a location within a single rotating object (object-centered). Importantly, however, IOR was also associated with the environmental location cued when cuing was of a separate object (scene-based), whereas facilitation of the cued location was found when cuing was of a component within an object. These results suggest that location is of central importance to scene-based representations of separate objects, which appear to be encoded in viewer-centered coordinates, whereas environmental locus is of little relevance when attention orients within a single object. The results also provide further evidence for the coexistence of both excitation and inhibition associated with uninformative exogenous cues.
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This research was supported by Grant S06761 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council awarded to S.P.T.
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Tipper, S.P., Jordan, H. & Weaver, B. Scene-based and object-centered inhibition of return: Evidence for dual orienting mechanisms. Perception & Psychophysics 61, 50–60 (1999). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03211948
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