Abstract: In this review, the association of object and position in higher level visual representation is summarized in two aspects: (i) the effect of object information on position memory and (ii) object-position binding. In the former, the object information affects general position memory and its bias (e.g., position estimation biases toward region centers or the object’s functional part). In the latter, previous studies have indicated the existence of object-position binding, which can’t be separated from objects in the background, and its formation is affected by the spatial relationships among objects in this background. Future research seems to pay close attention to other evidences of the object information that affects position memory and the existence or not of object-position binding in the background-binding-change condition, to investigate the effect of position information on object memory.

Key words: higher level visual representation, categorical bias, fine-grained information, categorical information