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A bias in saccadic suppression of shape change

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Processing of visual information in the central (foveal) and peripheral visual field is vastly different. To achieve a homogeneous representation of the visual world across eye movements, the visual system needs to compensate for these differences. By introducing subtle changes between peripheral and foveal inputs across saccades, one can test this compensation. We morphed shapes between a triangle and a circle and presented two different change directions (circularity decrease or increase) at varying magnitudes across a saccade. In a changediscrimination task, observers disproportionally often reported percepts of circularity increase. To test the relationship with visual-field differences, we measured perception when shapes were exclusively presented either in the periphery (before a saccade), or in the fovea (after a saccade). We found that overall shapes were perceived as more circular before than after a saccade and the more pronounced this difference was for a participant, the smaller was their circularity-increase bias in the change-discrimination task. We propose that visual-field differences have a direct and an indirect influence on transsaccadic perception of shape change. The direct influence is based on the distinct appearance of shape in the central and peripheral visual field in a trial, causing an increase of the perceptual magnitude of circularity-decrease changes. The indirect influence is based on long-term build-up of transsaccadic expectations; if a change is opposite (circularity increase) to the expectation (circularity decrease), it should elicit a strong error signal facilitating change detection. We discuss the concept of transsaccadic expectations and theoretical implications for transsaccadic perception of other feature changes.

Transsaccadic perceptionIntrasaccadic changesVisual stabilityShapeform perceptionSensorimotor contingenciesTranssaccadic expectationpredictionPERCEIVED SPATIAL-FREQUENCYTRANSSACCADIC MEMORYTARGET BLANKINGEYE-MOVEMENTSPOSITIONPERCEPTIONFOVEADISCRIMINATIONDISPLACEMENTSIZE

Huebner, Carolin、Schuetz, Alexander C.

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Allgemeine & Biol Psychol,Philipps Univ Marburg

2021

10.1016/j.visres.2021.05.005

Vision Research

Vision Research

SCI
ISSN：0042-6989
年,卷(期)：2021.186
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