Inhibition of Return

Inhibition of return is an attentional mechanism in which briefly attending to a location first speeds up detection of a target that then appears there, but shortly afterward slows detection at that same location instead. It is typically studied with a cue-response task, in which a person presses a button on detecting a target that follows a cue marking where the target will appear, and the effect emerges whether the cue draws attention automatically or through a deliberate decision to look there. Inhibition of return occurs for both visual and auditory stimuli, though it is stronger, and more often studied, in vision. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/