Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Context information supports serial dependence of multiple visual objects across memory episodes

  • Cora Fischer,
  • Stefan Czoschke,
  • Benjamin Peters,
  • Benjamin Rahm,
  • Jochen Kaiser,
  • Christoph Bledowski

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15874-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Visual cognition compensates for small changes in an object’s appearance to ensure its perceived continuity. We show that in situations with multiple objects, context features like color, temporal or spatial position are used as anchors to selectively integrate corresponding objects over time.