Testing an object file theory of object correspondence across saccades

230 219 309 292 Correct Position Correct Color How does the visual system establish correspondence between objects visible on separate fixations? Object file theory (Kahneman et al., 1992) proposes that objects are represented as a spatial index, with object property information bound to the index. In this view, object correspondence across disruptions such as saccades is established by position consistency (spatiotemporal continuity) without reference to an object’s visual properties. However, Hollingworth et al. (submitted) recently found that object correspondence across saccades can be driven by memory for an object’s shape or color. In the present study, we placed position and object property information at odds to investigate the primary determinant of object correspondence across saccades.