An attempt to detect concealed information in a spatial cueing paradigm
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- Takashi Kabata Scientific Crime Laboratory, Kanagawa Prefectural Police https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0034-0992
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Tomoya Kawashima
College of Informatics and Human Communication, Kanazawa Institute of Technology
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4634-3626
https://researchmap.jp/tkawashima
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https://doi.org/10.51094/jxiv.760Keywords:
Concealed information test, Reaction time, Spatial cueing task, Inhibition of return, AttentionAbstract
The concealed information test (CIT) is a technique that detects concealed knowledge related to criminal activity by presenting a series of questions to examinees and comparing their responses. Despite the active research in reaction time-based CIT (RT-CIT), its practical application has been limited to autonomic nervous system response-based CIT. This is due to methodological limitations inherent in the conventional RT-CIT paradigm, which restricts questions to known case facts. To address this limitation, we tested a novel RT-CIT task using the emergence of "inhibition of return" (IOR), whereby target detection is delayed when subsequent stimuli appear at the cued location in the spatial cueing paradigm. Participants were required to perform the task while holding a specific number in memory and keeping it concealed. Experiment 1 revealed that, in the exploratory analysis, IOR showed a partial reduction when the cue represented concealed information. However, this trend was not replicated in Experiment 2. We discuss the reasons for the low robustness of this effect and consider the potential for future advances.
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