| Abstract: | The visual world contains more information than can be perceived in a single glance. Consequently, humans make eye and head movements and somehow construct a stable and continuous representation of the visual environment from these successive views. How this is accomplished has puzzled psychologists for over a century. The present research investigated the properties of transsaccadic integration, the integration of information across saccadic eye movements. The results of several experiments suggest that the mental representation of the environment that is constructed across eye movements is surprisingly schematic and undetailed, and based more on the contents of the current fixation than on one's memory for the contents of previous fixations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
