Object-position binding in visual memory for natural scenes and object arrays.

@article{Hollingworth2007ObjectpositionBI,
  title={Object-position binding in visual memory for natural scenes and object arrays.},
  author={Andrew Hollingworth},
  journal={Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance},
  year={2007},
  volume={33 1},
  pages={
          31-47
        }
}
  • A. Hollingworth
  • Published 1 February 2007
  • Psychology
  • Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance
Nine experiments examined the means by which visual memory for individual objects is structured into a larger representation of a scene. Participants viewed images of natural scenes or object arrays in a change detection task requiring memory for the visual form of a single target object. In the test image, 2 properties of the stimulus were independently manipulated: the position of the target object and the spatial properties of the larger scene or array context. Memory performance was higher… 
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