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.