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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Eye movements are a potential confound in neural decoding of visual working memory.
  • Understanding gaze patterns is crucial for accurate interpretation of neural data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the information encoded in miniature gaze patterns during visual working memory.
  • To analyze how representational format changes during memory maintenance, particularly under conditions of attentional withdrawal.

Main Methods:

  • Combined eye-tracking with representational geometry analyses.
  • Participants (n=41) maintained visual object orientations under cued conditions.
  • Real-time feedback was used to discourage fixation breaks.

Main Results:

  • Small gaze shifts (<1°) robustly encoded stimulus orientation.
  • Evidence for simultaneous encoding of two sequentially presented orientations.
  • Orientation encoding shifted from object-specific to object-independent during maintenance, especially when attention was withdrawn.
  • Categorical reporting biases increased after unattended storage, with biased gaze geometries emerging during maintenance.

Conclusions:

  • Gaze patterns contain significant information during visuospatial working memory.
  • Representational formats systematically change during memory maintenance, particularly when stimuli are unattended.
  • Eye movements offer a valuable window into the dynamics of working memory.