There are several components to this account. At a general level, we adopt an object-based approach to transsaccadic correspondence and visual stability (Currie et al.,
2000; Deubel et al.,
1996; Deubel, Schneider, & Bridgeman,
2002; Hollingworth et al.,
2008; Irwin, McConkie, Carlson-Radvansky, & Currie,
1994; McConkie & Currie,
1996). The object-based approach contrasts with image-based accounts of stability that depend on global remapping and spatiotopic integration (Duhamel, Bremmer, BenHamed, & Graf,
1997; Duhamel, Colby, & Goldberg,
1992; McConkie & Rayner,
1976; Melcher,
2005). Object-based theories assume that stability depends on a local evaluation of saccade target information encoded before the saccade and visual information available near the landing position after the saccade. Before a saccade, visuospatial attention shifts covertly to the location of the saccade target object (Deubel & Schneider,
1996; Hoffman & Subramaniam,
1995; Kowler, Anderson, Dosher, & Blaser,
1995) as observed in the frontal eye fields (Schall,
2002,
2004) and the superior colliculus (McPeek & Keller,
2002). Attentional selection in oculomotor regions feeds back into visual sensory regions (T. Moore & Armstrong,
2003), generating enhanced processing of visual features from the saccade target object (T. Moore & Armstrong,
2003; T. Moore, Tolias, & Schiller,
1998; Sheinberg & Logothetis,
2001), possibly by the dynamic convergence of visual receptive fields on the target location (Hamker, Zirnsak, Calow, & Lappe,
2008; Zirnsak et al.,
2011). The shift of attention also enables the consolidation of these features into VWM (Irwin & Gordon,
1998; Schmidt, Vogel, Woodman, & Luck,
2002), and VWM supports the active maintenance of feature information across the disruption caused by the saccade (Hollingworth et al.,
2008). Because attention controls the consolidation of items into visual memory and attention is directed to the saccade target location before the saccade, the information maintained across the saccade will be dominated by objects at or near the target location (Irwin,
1992a; Irwin & Andrews,
1996).