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ArticleJournal of vision2022

Spatiotopic and retinotopic memory in the context of natural images.

Noah J Steinberg, Zvi N Roth, Elisha P Merriam

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Article in Journal of vision, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 42% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Navigating space and the developing mind.Frontiers in psychology · 2025
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  5. Dynamic saccade context triggers more stable object-location binding.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Noah J SteinbergLaboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Zvi N RothLaboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Elisha P MerriamLaboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA.
National Institute of Mental Health · USRoth and Rau (Germany) · DE

Funding

Multiple Scales of Stimulus Representation in the Human BrainZIAMH002966 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI MERRIAM, ELISHA · 2017 to 2025
$10.5M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA MH002966
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neural responses throughout the visual cortex encode stimulus location in a retinotopic (i.e., eye-centered) reference frame, and memory for stimulus position is most precise in retinal coordinates. Yet visual perception is spatiotopic: objects are perceived as stationary, even though eye movements cause frequent displacement of their location on the retina. Previous studies found that, after a single saccade, memory of retinotopic locations is more accurate than memory of spatiotopic locations. However, it is not known whether various aspects of natural viewing affect the retinotopic reference frame advantage. We found that the retinotopic advantage may in part depend on a retinal afterimage, which can be effectively nullified through backwards masking. Moreover, in the presence of natural scenes, spatiotopic memory is more accurate than retinotopic memory, but only when subjects are provided sufficient time to process the scene before the eye movement. Our results demonstrate that retinotopic memory is not always more accurate than spatiotopic memory and that the fidelity of memory traces in both reference frames are sensitive to the presence of contextual cues.

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SaccadesVisual CortexEye MovementsHumansVision, OcularVisual Perception

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PMID35323869
PMCPMC8963666
OpenAlexW4220900686

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