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A Computational Model of Spatial Memory Anticipation during Visual Search J´er´emy Fix and Julien Vitay and Nicolas P. Rougier Loria, Campus Scientifique, BP239 6 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France 0 0 2 t Abstract. Some visual search tasks require to memorize the location of c stimuli that have been previously scanned. Considerations about the eye O movements raise the question of how we are able to maintain a coherent 9 memory, despite the frequent drastically changes in the perception. In this article, we present a computational model that is able to anticipate ] the consequences of the eye movements on the visual perception in order E to update a spatial memory. N . s c 1 Introduction [ 1 While the notion of anticipation has been known for quite a long time in both v psychology, biology or physics domains, it remains difficult to agree on a stan- 1 dard definition that can account for its multiple facets. For example, in [1], the 4 author proposes an analogy between motor control and kalman filters where a 0 controller is supposed to produce a signal that is sent to both the plant to control 0 1 and to the emulator that is then able to produce a prediction of the behavior. In 6 [2], the author refutes this standard definition of anticipatory systems as being 0