Object features survive motion at saccadic speed but lose their link to specific objects

Object features survive motion at saccadic speed in the object-reviewing paradigm, but the object-specific preview benefit disappears at saccadic durations (N = 20, 19).

• Why it matters: It is unclear whether object identity is maintained when saccades sweep items across the retina while conscious perception omits that motion.
• What they did: In two preregistered experiments (N = 20 and N = 19), participants identified a target digit after Gabor patches with digits disappeared and reappeared, with the gap set to 300 ms or matched to saccade mean/peak speed.
• The result: At long durations, responses showed the Object-Specific Preview Benefit, but at saccadic durations it vanished and adding a distinguishing surface feature did not restore it, while a general preview benefit persisted.

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