Saccadic and manual response time data on inhibition of return during and after a visual search

Abstract

In the present paper we present a dataset that provides data of two experiments in which we investigated the presence of Inhibition of Return (IOR) during and after a visual search. Participants either had to saccade (Experiment 1 and 2) or make a manual response (Experiment 2) to a probe during a visual search task (searching for a target letter among a set of distractors) or immediately after its completion. The data consist of the unprocessed raw data and one csv-file of the processed eye tracking data on eight (Experiment 1) and 18 (Experiment 2) participants, respectively. In total, we obtained 5,116 trials in Experiment 1 and 18,424 in Experiment 2. The data set is stored at the repository DOOR hosted by the University of Krems (https://door.donau-uni.ac.at/view/o:1014). Detailed information about the experiments and the interpretation of the data can be found in the paper “Post-search IOR: Searching for inhibition of return after search” (Höfler et al., 2019) [1].

Keywords

• Visual search
• Inhibition of return
• Eye tracking
• Saccadic responses
• Manual responses