Post-saccadic changes disrupt attended pre-saccadic object memory

Trans-saccadic memory consists of keeping track objects’ locations and features across saccades; pre-saccadic information is remembered compared with post-saccadic information. It has been shown to have limited resources involve attention respect the selection objects features. In support, a previous study showed that recognition distinct in visual scene impaired when are relevant thus already encoded (Poth, Herwig, Schneider, 2015). Here, we investigated inverse (i.e. how affected by abrupt but irrelevant changes scene). We also modulated amount object having participants either make saccade it or elsewhere observed attentional facilitation much disrupted trans-saccadic objects. Participants identified flashed symbol (d, b, p, q, among distracters), at one six placeholders (figures “8”) arranged circle around fixation while planning them. They reported identity after saccade. changed Experiment removing entire scene, only placeholder where was presented, all other except this one. reduced identification performance saccade-target disappeared two, location (inward/outward shift rotation re. vector) decreased increased shift/rotation placeholder. conclude attention-capturing particularly these prioritized being goal These findings support notion correspondence saccadic broken through removal change.