Visual memory and the perception of a stable visual environment
| Autor: | James L. Zacks, David E. Irwin, Joseph S. Brown |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
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Visual perception
genetic structures Computer science media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Social Environment Discrimination Learning Transsaccadic memory Visual memory Memory Perception Orientation Humans Attention General Psychology media_common Communication business.industry Eye movement Iconic memory Sensory Systems Pattern Recognition Visual Saccade Mental Recall Visual Perception Spatial frequency Cues business Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Perceptionpsychophysics. 47(1) |
| ISSN: | 0031-5117 |
| Popis: | The visual world appears stable and continuous despite eye movements. One hypothesis about how this perception is achieved is that the contents of successive fixations are fused in memory according to environmental coordinates. Two experiments failed to support this hypothesis; they showed that one's ability to detect a grating presented after a saccade is unaffected by the presentation of a grating with the same spatial frequency in the same spatial location before the saccade. A third experiment tested an alternative explanation of perceptual stability that claims that the contents of successive fixations are compared, rather than fused, across saccades, allowing one to determine whether the world has remained stable. This hypothesis was supported: Experienced subjects could accurately determine whether two patterns viewed in successive fixations were identical or different, even when the two patterns appeared in different spatial positions across the saccade. Taken together, these results suggest that perceptual stability and information integration across saccades rely on memory for the relative positions of objects in the environment, rather than on the spatiotopic fusion of visual information from successive fixations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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