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Carolin Hübner¹, Alexander C Schütz¹

¹AG Allgemeine und Biologische Psychologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany.

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Transsaccadic integration seamlessly combines visual information from peripheral and foveal presentations for accurate numerosity estimation. This robust mechanism functions even with disrupted object continuity, ensuring reliable environmental perception.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Visual Perception
Computational Vision

Background:

Visual processing differs across the visual field, with distinct peripheral and foveal processing capabilities.
Understanding how information is integrated across eye movements (saccades) is crucial for explaining stable visual perception.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the integration of peripheral and foveal visual information for numerosity estimation across saccades.
To determine the robustness and limits of transsaccadic integration for complex visual features.

Main Methods:

Participants judged dot numerosity presented peripherally before a saccade and foveally after a saccade.
A maximum-likelihood model predicted transsaccadic accuracy based on peripheral and foveal data.
Object continuity was manipulated to test the limits of integration.

Main Results:

Underestimation of numerosity occurred with foveal presentation; overestimation occurred with peripheral presentation.
Near-optimal integration of peripheral and foveal information was observed in the transsaccadic condition.
Transsaccadic integration remained robust despite significant disruptions in object continuity.

Conclusions:

Transsaccadic integration is a highly robust mechanism for combining visual information, including numerosity, across saccades.
This integration process is effective even when there are mismatches between peripheral and foveal information.
Transsaccadic integration contributes significantly to accurate and reliable visual perception of the environment.