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Robert D Gordon¹, Sarah D Vollmer, Megan L Frankl

¹Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58105, USA. robert.d.gordon@ndsu.edu

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Object files represent object orientation. Orientation changes disrupt perceptual continuity for near objects but not distant ones, depending on perceptual representation quality.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Visual Perception
Neuroscience

Background:

Investigating how the brain maintains object representations across eye movements (saccades).
Understanding the role of object features, like orientation, in perceptual continuity.

Purpose of the Study:

To determine if object files represent object orientation.
To examine how orientation changes affect perceptual continuity during saccades.
To explore the influence of object location on orientation's role in continuity.

Main Methods:

Three experiments involving saccadic eye movements to peripheral objects.
Manipulation of object identity and orientation between preview and target displays.
Analysis of perceptual continuity disruption based on object proximity to fixation.

Main Results:

Orientation changes disrupted perceptual continuity for objects near fixation.
Continuity was not disrupted for objects further from fixation, despite orientation changes.
Subjects maintained object-specific orientation representations even for distant objects.

Conclusions:

Object files encode orientation information.
The impact of orientation changes on perceptual continuity is modulated by the quality of the perceptual representation, which is influenced by object distance.