Journal article
Object correspondence: Using perceived causality to infer how the visual system knows what went where
Attention, perception & psychophysics, Vol.82(1), pp.181-192
01/2020
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-019-01763-y
PMCID: PMC8875519
PMID: 31214971
Abstract
Anne Treisman and colleagues developed an influential theoretical framework surrounding the construct of "object files" as a means of understanding the functional need for an episodic representation of objects as they move, change, disappear, and reappear from view (Kahneman, Treisman, & Gibbs, Cognitive Psychology, 24, 175-219, 1992; Treisman, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 40, 201-237, 1988). Within that framework, object files are defined through the process of object correspondence, whereby stimuli are associated with and represented as later instantiations of existing object representations and are used to selectively update those representations. A central assertion of the object file framework is that object correspondence is established on the basis of spatiotemporal continuity, without regard to feature information. We tested this assertion by investigating whether feature information, separate from spatiotemporal information, can determine how object correspondence is resolved. We used the perception of causality in simple dynamic displays, which provides a means of inferring how object correspondence is resolved. We found that, contrary to the spatiotemporal dominance assertion, feature information is used to resolve object correspondence. We suggest that the object-file framework be extended to reflect the importance of both feature and spatiotemporal information in establishing and maintaining episodic object representations.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Object correspondence: Using perceived causality to infer how the visual system knows what went where
- Creators
- Cathleen M Moore - University of Iowa, W311 Seashore Hall, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA. cathleen-moore@uiowa.eduTeresa Stephens - Harford Community College, Bel Air, MD, USAElisabeth Hein - University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Attention, perception & psychophysics, Vol.82(1), pp.181-192
- DOI
- 10.3758/s13414-019-01763-y
- PMID
- 31214971
- PMCID
- PMC8875519
- NLM abbreviation
- Atten Percept Psychophys
- ISSN
- 1943-3921
- eISSN
- 1943-393X
- Grant note
- HE 7543/1-1 / Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft EY023750 / NEI NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/2020
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984213428102771
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