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Spatiotopic and saccade-specific transsaccadic memory for object detail
Lukasz Grzeczkowski1,2, Jonathan van Leeuwen3,4, Artem V Belopolsky3,5
1Allgemeine und Experimentelle Psychologie, Department Psychologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München , Germany.
Journal of Vision
|May 17, 2024
Summary
Blanking a stimulus during eye movements (saccades) improves transsaccadic memory for detailed visual information. This suggests a remapped memory trace is accessible when the postsaccadic stimulus is not overwriting it.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Visual Perception
Background:
- Transsaccadic memory, the ability to retain visual information across eye movements, remains poorly understood.
- Previous research suggests postsaccadic stimulus blanking can aid transsaccadic memory for location but not detailed form.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate whether postsaccadic stimulus blanking facilitates the transsaccadic transfer of detailed form information.
- To determine if blanking enables access to a remapped memory trace during saccades.
Main Methods:
- Participants performed saccades to a peripheral stimulus and reported intrasaccadic changes in its form.
- Stimulus blanking (200 ms) was introduced at saccade onset in experimental trials.
- A control condition involved fixation with retinal displacement mimicking saccade events.
Main Results:
- Stimulus blanking significantly improved transsaccadic change detection performance.
- Performance with blanking was superior to the retinal displacement control condition.
- This indicates enhanced transfer of detailed form information across saccades.
Conclusions:
- The findings support the existence of a remapped visual memory trace.
- This remapped trace is accessible during saccades when the postsaccadic stimulus is absent (blanked).
- Blanking prevents overwriting of the memory trace by salient postsaccadic visual input.
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