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Visual working memory (VWM) content influences how we perceive object correspondence over time. Holding specific colors in VWM biased motion perception in Ternus displays, demonstrating VWM

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Visual Perception
Neuroscience

Background:

Object correspondence, perceiving objects as continuous across time, relies on spatiotemporal continuity and feature similarity.
Visual working memory (VWM) is crucial for maintaining information over time, suggesting a potential role in object correspondence.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether the content held in visual working memory influences object correspondence.
To determine if VWM content can bias the perception of motion in ambiguous displays.

Main Methods:

Utilized the Ternus motion display, where three disks shift positions, creating ambiguity between group motion and element motion perception.
Adapted Ternus displays with colors that biased either group or element motion perception.
Manipulated visual working memory content by having participants maintain specific colors, then reported perceived motion.

Main Results:

Maintaining a color that biased element motion in VWM led to a higher perception of element motion.
Conversely, maintaining a color that biased group motion in VWM increased the perception of group motion.
These effects were observed only when the color was relevant to the VWM task, not when incidental.

Conclusions:

Content actively maintained in visual working memory significantly contributes to resolving object correspondence.
VWM content can dynamically bias perceptual interpretations of motion and object continuity.
This highlights the active role of memory in shaping real-time visual perception.