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inhibition of return
inhibition of return Inhibition of return is a tendency for people to respond more slowly to a target when it appears in a location that was cued before, compared with a new location.
Inhibition of return is a tendency for people to respond more slowly to a target when it appears in a location that was cued before, compared with a new location. In the supplied source, this effect is described as being influenced by memory retrieval and contextual similarity between successive targets.