Memory for retinotopic locations is more accurate than memory for spatiotopic locations, even for visually guided reaching.

ABSTRACT: To interact successfully with objects, we must maintain stable representations of their locations in the world. However, their images on the retina may be displaced several times per second by large, rapid eye movements. A number of studies have demonstrated that visual processing is heavily influenced by gaze-centered (retinotopic) information, including a recent finding that memory for an object's location is more accurate and precise in gaze-centered (retinotopic) than world-centered (spatiotopic) coordinates (Golomb & Kanwisher, 2012b). This effect is somewhat surprising, given our intuition that behavior is successfully guided by spatiotopic representations. In the present experiment, we asked whether the visual system may rely on a more spatiotopic memory store depending on the mode

SUBMITTER: Shafer-Skelton A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5960606 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature