Gokce,A.Müller,H.J.Geyer,T.2024-10-152024-10-152015111664-1078https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00838https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12469/6462The present study investigates the representations(s) underlying positional priming of visual ‘pop-out’ search (Maljkovic and Nakayama, 1996). Three search items (one target and two distractors) were presented at different locations, in invariant (Experiment 1) or random (Experiment 2) cross-trial sequences. By these manipulations it was possible to disentangle retinotopic, spatiotopic, and object-centered priming representations. Two forms of priming were tested: target location facilitation (i.e., faster reaction times – RTs– when the trial n target is presented at a trial n-1 target relative to n-1 blank location) and distractor location inhibition (i.e., slower RTs for n targets presented at n-1 distractor compared to n-1 blank locations). It was found that target locations were coded in positional short-term memory with reference to both spatiotopic and object-centered representations (Experiment 1 vs. 2). In contrast, distractor locations were maintained in an object-centered reference frame (Experiments 1 and 2). We put forward the idea that the uncertainty induced by the experiment manipulation (predictable versus random cross-trial item displacements) modulates the transition from object- to space-based representations in cross-trial memory for target positions. © Copyright © 2015 Gokce, Müller and Geyer.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesspositional priming of pop-outreference framesspatial mapsvisual searchworking memoryArticle610.3389/fpsyg.2015.008382-s2.0-85050374682Q1Q1