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Object-mediated overwriting across saccades
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Object-mediated overwriting across saccades

A Caglar Tas, J Toby Mordkoff and Andrew Hollingworth
Journal of vision (Charlottesville, Va.), Vol.21(2), pp.3-14
02/03/2021
DOI: 10.1167/jov.21.2.3
PMCID: PMC7862732
PMID: 33538771
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https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.2.3View
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Abstract

How are visual sensory representations that are acquired peripherally from a saccade target related to sensory representations generated foveally after the saccade? We tested the hypothesis that, when the two representations are perceived to belong to the same object, the post-saccadic value tends to overwrite the pre-saccadic value. Participants executed a saccade to a colored target object, which sometimes changed during the saccade by ±15°, 30°, or 45° in color space. They were post-cued to report either the pre-saccadic or post-saccadic color in a continuous report procedure. Substantial overwriting of the pre-saccadic color by the post-saccadic color was observed. Moreover, the introduction of a brief post-saccadic blank interval (which disrupted the perception of object correspondence) led to a substantial reduction in overwriting. The results provide the first direct evidence for an object-mediated overwriting mechanism across saccades, in which post-saccadic values automatically replace pre-saccadic values.

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