Binding success and failure: Evidence for the spontaneous integration of perceptual features and object evaluations

Abstract

Humans represent perceptual events in a distributed, feature-specific fashion, which calls for some sort of feature integration. It has been suggested that processing an event leads to the creation of a temporary binding of the corresponding feature codes - an object file. Here we show that object files do not only comprise of perceptual feature codes but also include codes that reflect evaluations of the perceptual event. © 2012 Hommel and Keizer.