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H Deubel1, B Bridgeman, W X Schneider

  • 1Department of Experimental Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany. deubel@psy.uni-muenchen.de

Vision Research
|January 20, 1999
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Visual stability relies on continuous presence. Blanking targets during saccades increases perceived motion, but stable, continuous visual context anchors spatial perception and recalibrates visual space after eye movements.

Area of Science:

  • Visual perception
  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Oculomotor research

Background:

  • Perceived stability of visual targets during saccades depends on target presence post-saccade.
  • Visual context and blanking interact to influence intra-saccadic displacement perception.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate the interplay between visual context and blanking on perceived target stability during saccades.
  • Determine how continuously visible objects and blanked objects influence judgments of intra-saccadic displacement.

Main Methods:

  • Subjects performed saccades towards targets, with one object (target or distractor) potentially displaced and/or briefly blanked.
  • Participants reported perceived jumps of either the target or distractor.
  • Experiments manipulated object presence, displacement, blanking duration, and surrounding visual texture.

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Main Results:

  • Blanked objects were more frequently perceived as jumping, suggesting a bias towards stability for continuously visible items.
  • Increased blanking duration improved accuracy in identifying real intra-saccadic displacements.
  • A continuously present, stable background texture biased judgments of simultaneous jumps of a blanked target.

Conclusions:

  • Continuously visible visual patterns are preferentially perceived as stable, serving as a reference for spatial recalibration.
  • Space constancy relies heavily on the assumption that stable, persistent visual information anchors perceptual space post-saccade.