中文摘要：

返回抑制是指相较于出现在非线索化位置上的靶刺激而言，个体对出现在先前线索化位置上的靶刺激有更慢反应的现象。本文在系统回顾已有研究基础上，综述了一系列关于视觉返回抑制认知机制的理论，这些理论按研究取向可划分为两类：第一类理论侧重于考察返回抑制如何影响信息加工阶段，其代表有早期的知觉抑制理论、运动反应抑制理论、双成分理论和抑制标签理论；另一类理论则侧重于考察各种自上而下因素如何影响返回抑制，其代表有整合．分离理论和三因素理论。

英文摘要：

Inhibition of return （IOR） refers to slower responses to targets appeared at previous attended locations than to those at control locations. Here we shall review the cognitive mechanism theories of IOR and discuss how IOR is generated and expressed. We have classified the theories into two broad categories： the first category of theories focus on how IOR affects different stages of information processing, which includes perceptual inhibition theory, motor/response inhibition theory, dual components theory and inhibitory tagging theory; The second category of theories tend to focus more on how the top-down factors, such as task set, modulate the expression of IOR, which includes integration-segregation theory and three factors theory.