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Tatler B W, Gilchrist I D, Rusted J, 2003, "The time course of abstract visual representation" Perception 32(5) 579 – 592
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The time course of abstract visual representation

Benjamin W Tatler, Iain D Gilchrist, Jenny Rusted

Received 27 May 2002, in revised form 19 March 2003

Abstract. Studies in change blindness re-enforce the suggestion that veridical, pictorial representations that survive multiple relocations of gaze are unlikely to be generated in the visual system. However, more abstract information may well be extracted and represented by the visual system. In this paper we study the types of information that are retained and the time courses over which these representations are constructed when participants view complex natural scenes. We find that such information is retained and that the resultant abstract representations encode a range of information. Different types of information are extracted and represented over different time courses. After several seconds of viewing natural scenes, our visual system is able to construct a complex information-rich representation.

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