Memory-based predictions prime perceptual judgments across head turns in immersive, real-world scenes.

ABSTRACT: Each view of our environment captures only a subset of our immersive surroundings. Yet, our visual experience feels seamless. A puzzle for human neuroscience is to determine what cognitive mechanisms enable us to overcome our limited field of view and efficiently anticipate new views as we sample our visual surroundings. Here, we tested whether memory-based predictions of upcoming scene views facilitate efficient perceptual judgments across head turns. We tested this hypothesis using immersive, head-mounted virtual reality (VR). After learning a set of immersive real-world environments, participants (n = 101 across 4 experiments) were briefly primed with a single view from a studied environment and then turned left or right to make a perceptual judgment about an adjacent scene view. We fou

SUBMITTER: Mynick A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11831858 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature