Feature-Binding Errors After Eye Movements and Shifts of Attention
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L'Heureux, Zara E.
Kanwisher, Nancy
Golomb, Julie D.
Date Issued
March 2014
Journal
Psychological Science
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Sage Publications/Association for Psychological Science
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Golomb, J. D., Z. E. L’Heureux, and N. Kanwisher. “Feature-Binding Errors After Eye Movements and Shifts of Attention.” Psychological Science 25, no. 5 (March 19, 2014): 1067–1078.
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Abstract
When people move their eyes, the eye-centered (retinotopic) locations of objects must be updated to maintain world-centered (spatiotopic) stability. Here, we demonstrated that the attentional-updating process temporarily distorts the fundamental ability to bind object locations with their features. Subjects were simultaneously presented with four colors after a saccade—one in a precued spatiotopic target location—and were instructed to report the target’s color using a color wheel. Subjects’ reports were systematically shifted in color space toward the color of the distractor in the retinotopic location of the cue. Probabilistic modeling exposed both crude swapping errors and subtler feature mixing (as if the retinotopic color had blended into the spatiotopic percept). Additional experiments conducted without saccades revealed that the two types of errors stemmed from different attentional mechanisms (attention shifting vs. splitting). Feature mixing not only reflects a new perceptual phenomenon, but also provides novel insight into how attention is remapped across saccades.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
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https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797614522068
