Inhibition of return in fear of spiders: Discrepant eye movement and reaction time data


Berdica, Elisa ; Gerdes, Antje B. M. ; Pittig, Andre ; Alpers, Georg W.


[img]
Preview
PDF
183924.pdf - Published

Download (1MB)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/183924
URL: https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/37581
Additional URL: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/joph/2014/183924/
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-375811
Document Type: Article
Year of publication: 2014
The title of a journal, publication series: Journal of Ophthalmology
Volume: 2014
Issue number: Article 183924
Page range: 1-9
Place of publication: New York, NY
Publishing house: Hindawi
ISSN: 2090-004X , 2090-0058
Related URLs:
Publication language: English
Institution: School of Social Sciences > Klinische u. Biologische Psychologie u. Psychotherapie (Alpers 2010-)
Subject: 150 Psychology
Abstract: Inhibition of return (IOR) refers to a bias against returning the attention to a previously attended location. As a foraging facilitator it is thought to facilitate systematic visual search. With respect to neutral stimuli, this is generally thought to be adaptive, but when threatening stimuli appear in our environment, such a bias may be maladaptive. This experiment investigated the influence of phobia-related stimuli on the IOR effect using a discrimination task. A sample of 50 students (25 high, 25 low in spider fear) completed an IOR task including schematic representations of spiders or butterflies as targets. Eye movements were recorded and to assess discrimination among targets, participants indicated with button presses if targets were spiders or butterflies. Reaction time data did not reveal a significant IOR effect but a significant interaction of group and target; spider fearful participants were faster to respond to spider targets than to butterflies. Furthermore, eye-tracking data showed a robust IOR effect independent of stimulus category. These results offer a more comprehensive assessment of the motor and oculomotor factors involved in the IOR effect.




Dieser Eintrag ist Teil der Universitätsbibliographie.

Das Dokument wird vom Publikationsserver der Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim bereitgestellt.




Metadata export


Citation


+ Search Authors in

+ Download Statistics

Downloads per month over past year

View more statistics



You have found an error? Please let us know about your desired correction here: E-Mail


Actions (login required)

Show item Show item