Object continuity and the transsaccadic representation of form

Gordon, Robert D.; Vollmer, Sarah D.; Frankl, Megan L.

doi:10.3758/pp.70.4.667

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“…The observed effect of contextual objects' orientation, but not color, on participants' performance in detecting changes in target objects' orientations parallels previous findings showing how changes to contextual items' orientation, rather than color, influences location change detection performance (Jiang et al, 2004;Jiang et al, 2000). Moreover, recent studies examining the nature of object file representations have shown that object orientation information is preserved in transsaccadic memory and therefore plays an influential role in preserving object continuity (e.g., Henderson & Siefert, 2001;Gordon et al, 2008). In a recent study, Gordon and Vollmer (in press) further show that the influence of object color on preserving object continuity is modulated by object-color associations.…”

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“…Recent studies examining object representations in transsaccadic memory suggest that detailed representations of object orientation can be encoded during a preview and affect subsequent object identification (e.g., Henderson & Siefert, 2001;Gordon, Vollmer, & Frankl, 2008). Moreover, research has shown that changes to elongated objects' orientations impair location change detection performance (e.g., Jiang, Chun, & Olson, 2004, Experiment 1).…”

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The influence of location and visual features on visual object memory

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2009

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Three experiments examined the influence of contextual objects' location and visual features on visual memory. Participants' visual memory was tested with a change detection task in which they had to judge whether the orientation (Experiments 1 and 2) or color (Experiment 3) of a target object was the same. Furthermore, contextual objects' locations and visual features were manipulated in the test image. The results showed that change detection performance was better when contextual objects' locations remained the same from study to test, demonstrating that the original spatial configuration is important for subsequent visual memory retrieval. The results further showed that changes to contextual objects' orientation, but not color, reduced orientation change detection performance, whereas changes to contextual objects' color, but not orientation, impaired color change detection performance. Therefore, contextual objects' visual features are capable of affecting visual memory. However, selective attention plays an influential role in modulating such effect.Recent research has shown that visual object representations can be maintained reliably during and after viewing complex visual stimuli, such as scenes and object arrays (Hollingworth, 2004(Hollingworth, , 2005Hollingworth & Henderson, 2002;Hollingworth, Williams, & Henderson, 2001;Sun & Gordon, 2009). For example, Hollingworth et al. (2001) tested whether or not detailed visual representations can be maintained after attention is withdrawn from individual objects in scenes. Participants were asked to detect changes to the visual form of individual objects appearing within line drawings of natural scenes. During free viewing of a scene, a target object was replaced by another object from the same basic-level category during a saccade away from the target object after it had been fixated the first time. The results showed that participants could successfully detect a token change when the change occurred during a saccade away from the target object, demonstrating that relatively detailed visual representations can be retained in memory from previously attended objects and support the detection of changes to the visual form of those objects. By using the same saccade-contingent change paradigm, Hollingworth and Henderson (2002) further demonstrated that participants were able to successfully detect type, token, and rotation changes to a target object when it was no longer within the focus of current attention. In addition, Hollingworth and Henderson administered a delayed memory test and showed that participants were still able to successfully discriminate targets from distractors after all scenes had been viewed (Experiment 1 and 2). In other words, participants' discrimination performance in the type-, token-, and orientation-discrimination conditions was well above chance despite the fact that they were tested after a 5-30 minute retention interval. This finding provided converging evidence that relatively detailed visual information can be retained i...

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The influence of location and visual features on visual object memory

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2009

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“…Considerable work has been done to identify the features that are represented in object files (e.g., Gordon & Irwin, 1996, 2000; Gordon, Vollmer, & Frankl, 2008; Henderson, 1994; Henderson & Siefert, 2001). The general approach has been to manipulate the similarity of the preview and target objects, and examine how changes in some shared feature affect the object-specific benefit.…”

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“…Using a transsaccadic preview paradigm, Gordon, Vollmer, and Frankl (2008) examined the representation of object orientation in object files. Though different in some respects from the traditional reviewing paradigm, this approach (developed by Henderson and his colleagues; e.g., Henderson & Siefert, 2001) shares features of the reviewing paradigm that permit measurement of object-specific benefits.…”

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“…In an additional experiment, for example, the preview objects were presented closer to fixation; under such conditions, changes in an object's orientation did reduce object specific preview benefits (as had been reported by Henderson and Siefert, 2001). Gordon et al (2008) concluded that the extent to which changing an object feature disrupts continuity depends on the quality of the object's representation; moving the object closer to fixation results in a higher quality representation of the object's perceptual features, enhancing the importance of those features to perceptual continuity.…”

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Episodic representation of diagnostic and nondiagnostic object colour

Gordon

Vollmer

2010

Visual Cognition

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In three experiments, we investigated transsaccadic object file representations. In each experiment, participants moved their eyes from a central fixation cross to a saccade target located between two peripheral objects. During the saccade, this preview display was replaced with a target display containing a single object to be named. On trials in which the target identity matched one of the preview objects, its color either matched or did not match the previewed object color. The results indicated that color changes disrupt perceptual continuity, but only for the class of objects for which color is diagnostic of object identity. When the color is not integral to identifying an object (for example, when the object is a letter or an object without a characteristic color), object continuity is preserved regardless of changes to the object's color. These results suggest that object features that are important for defining the object are incorporated into its episodic representation. Furthermore, the results are consistent with previous work showing that the quality of a feature's representation determines its importance in preserving continuity.

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Let's Get Rid of the Concept of an Object File

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2023

Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Mind

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In a typical vision textbook you will see the term "object file" defined as follows: "An object file is a visual representation that "sticks" to a moving object over time on the basis of how and where that object moves, and stores (and updates) information about what that object looks like" (Scholl and Flombaum, 2010, p. 655). Object files are said to function in working memory (Green and Quilty-Dunn, 2021;Quilty-Dunn and Green, 2021) and to ground singular thought (Murez and Recanati, 2016). One claim of this article is that although thought and working memory often preserve some perceptual information, what are called the object files of both singular thought and working memory are fundamentally different from what are called the object files of perception. Indeed, there is reason for doubt that the object files of perception can even ground singular thought. The object files of working memory and singular thought enclose the perceptual materials from perceptual object files in a cognitive envelope and in addition transform the perceptual information, often misrepresenting some aspects of the stimulus in order to make other aspects of the stimulus easier to use for a specific task. That is the problem for grounding singular thought.A second thesis of this article is that the object files of perception (that is, perceptual object representations) are iconic in format, contrary to the claims of the "pluralists" who take them to be discursive (Quilty-Dunn, 2020b). The object files of thought and working memory by contrast are conceptual and partly discursive. The term "object file" ambiguously denotes two fundamentally different kinds of entities. We would be better off without the term.Terminology: I will often call the object files of perception "perceptual object representations" and the object files of working memory "working memory object representations," though I also use the term "object file" when making contact with other writers who use that term.

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Object continuity and the transsaccadic representation of form

Cited by 34 publications

References 47 publications

The influence of location and visual features on visual object memory

The influence of location and visual features on visual object memory

Episodic representation of diagnostic and nondiagnostic object colour

Let's Get Rid of the Concept of an Object File

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