Visual Crowding at a Distance during Predictive Remapping

William J Harrison; James D. Retell; Roger W. Remington; Jason B. Mattingley

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.03.050

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Visual Crowding at a Distance during Predictive Remapping

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Visual Crowding at a Distance during Predictive Remapping

William J Harrison, James D. Retell, Roger W. Remington and Jason B. Mattingley

Current Biology, Vol.23(9), pp.793-798

2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.03.050

PMCID: PMC4169200

PMID: 23743412

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Abstract

visual processing

visual crowding

remapping

eye movement preparation

When we move our eyes, images of objects are displaced on the retina, yet the visual world appears stable. Oculomotor activity just prior to an eye movement contributes to perceptual stability by providing information about the predicted location of a relevant object on the retina following a saccade [1, 2]. It remains unclear, however, whether an object’s features are represented at the remapped location. Here, we exploited the phenomenon of visual crowding [3] to show that presaccadic remapping preserves the elementary features of objects at their predicted postsaccadic locations. Observers executed an eye movement and identified a letter probe flashed just before the saccade. Flanking stimuli were flashed around the location that would be occupied by the probe immediately following the saccade. Despite being positioned in the opposite visual field to the probe, these flankers disrupted observers’ ability to identify the probe. Crucially, this “remapped crowding” interference was stronger when the flankers were visually similar to the probe than when the flanker and probe stimuli were distinct. Our findings suggest that visual processing at remapped locations is featurally dependent, providing a mechanism for achieving perceptual continuity of objects across saccades.

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Title: Visual Crowding at a Distance during Predictive Remapping
Authors: William J Harrison (Corresponding Author) - The University of Queensland
James D. Retell (Author) - The University of Queensland
Roger W. Remington (Author) - The University of Queensland
Jason B. Mattingley (Author) - The University of Queensland
Publication details: Current Biology, Vol.23(9), pp.793-798
Publisher: Cell Press
Date published: 2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.03.050
ISSN: 1879-0445; 0960-9822
PMID: 23743412; PMC4169200
Grants: A Scalable Theory of Behavior Composition for Practical Engineering Models of Human Performance, DP0666772, Australian Research Council (Australia, Canberra) - ARC
Cognitive control of attention and its role in regulating brain function in health and disease, FL110100103, Australian Research Council (Australia, Canberra) - ARC
Cortical regulation of attentional capture, DP120103721, Australian Research Council (Australia, Canberra) - ARC
Organisation Unit: School of Health - Psychology
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99995994602621
Output Type: Journal article

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