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  • 1Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2500, USA. Gregory.Zelinsky@stonybrook.edu

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Visual working memory (VWM) is crucial for retaining information from complex scenes.
  • The role of eye movements, specifically refixations, in VWM processes remains debated.
  • Understanding how we maintain object representations during free viewing is key to VWM research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether refixations serve a rehearsal function in visual working memory.
  • To determine the relationship between refixations, intervening objects, and memory accuracy.
  • To explore computational models that can explain refixation behavior in VWM.

Main Methods:

  • Analyzing eye-tracking data from observers freely viewing multiobject scenes.
  • Implementing an experimental paradigm limiting scene viewing to a set number of intervening objects before a recognition test.
  • Comparing empirical data against random and constrained computational models.

Main Results:

  • The probability of refixating a target object increased with the number of intervening objects viewed.
  • Refixations yielded a significant 16% accuracy benefit in recognition performance.
  • Refixation patterns were most common after viewing one to two objects, irrespective of intervening object count.
  • Computational models without a VWM component could not account for the observed behaviors.

Conclusions:

  • Refixations play a critical role in rehearsing and maintaining object representations within VWM.
  • A 'monitor-refixate' rehearsal system is proposed, where refixations occur to refresh decaying object activations.
  • These findings necessitate a VWM component in models aiming to explain visual attention and memory during scene perception.