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To see and remember: Visually specific information is retained in memory from previously attended objects in natural scenes
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To see and remember: Visually specific information is retained in memory from previously attended objects in natural scenes

Andrew Hollingworth, Carrick Williams and John Henderson
Psychonomic bulletin & review, Vol.8(4), pp.761-768
12/2001
DOI: 10.3758/BF03196215
PMID: 11848597
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Abstract

What is the nature of the representation formed during the viewing of natural scenes? We tested two competing hypotheses regarding the accumulation of visual information during scene viewing. The first holds that coherent visual representations disintegrate as soon as attention is withdrawn from an object and thus that the visual representation of a scene is exceedingly impoverished. The second holds that visual representations do not necessarily decay upon the withdrawal of attention, but instead can be accumulated in memory from previously attended regions. Target objects in line drawings of natural scenes were changed during a saccadic eye movement away from those objects. Three findings support the second hypothesis. First, changes to the visual form of target objects (token substitution) were successfully detected, as indicated by both explicit and implicit measures, even though the target object was not attended when the change occurred. Second, these detections were often delayed until well after the change. Third, changes to semantically inconsistent target objects were detected better than changes to semantically consistent objects.
 Cognitive Psychology Psychology

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