TRANSSACCADIC MEMORY AND INTEGRATION DURING REAL-WORLD OBJECT PERCEPTION

Authors
Citation
Jm. Henderson, TRANSSACCADIC MEMORY AND INTEGRATION DURING REAL-WORLD OBJECT PERCEPTION, Psychological science, 8(1), 1997, pp. 51-55
Citations number
27
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology
Journal title
ISSN journal
09567976
Volume
8
Issue
1
Year of publication
1997
Pages
51 - 55
Database
ISI
SICI code
0956-7976(1997)8:1<51:TMAIDR>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
What is the nature of the information that is preserved and combined a cross saccadic eye movements during the visual analysis of real-world objects? The two experiments reported investigated transsaccadic memor y and transsaccadic integration, respectively. In the critical conditi on, participants were presented with one set of contours from an objec t during one fixation and with a complementary set of contours during the next fixation. In Experiment 1, participants could at best inconsi stently detect contour changes across the saccade. In Experiment 2, a change in visible contour had no influence on object identification. T hese results suggest that a veridical representation of object contour is neither consistently preserved nor integrated across a saccade.