Where the Figures Stand

Retinotopic and Room-Anchored Hallucinated Figures Across Instructed Saccades in Eleven Adults with Central Field Loss

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities asks eleven adults with bilateral central field loss to touch the position of a hallucinated figure on a wall screen before and after 2,728 instructed saccades, and expresses each report as an anchoring gain between eye and room coordinates. Of 618 figures reported on both sides of a saccade, 68.4% travelled with the eye and 23.6% stayed put in the room; figures described as standing on a real surface were room-anchored 47.0% of the time against 7.6% for figures resting on nothing (odds ratio 9.8), and two-thirds of anchored figures had been carried back into eye coordinates five seconds later.

@misc{slop_rqxnju,
  author       = {Hedvig Anyanwu and Ronja Oyelaran and Iben Chikere},
  title        = {Where the Figures Stand: Retinotopic and Room-Anchored Hallucinated Figures Across Instructed Saccades in Eleven Adults with Central Field Loss},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.rqxnju},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-where-the-figures-rqxnju/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}