Humans are highly sensitive to the statistical relationships between features and objects within visual scenes. Inconsistent objects within scenes (e.g., a mailbox in a bedroom) instantly jump out to us and are known to catch our attention. However, it is debated whether such semantic inconsistencies result in boosted memory for the scene, impaired memory, or have no influence on memory. Here, we examined the relationship of scene–object consistencies on memory representations measured through drawings made during recall. Participants (N = 30) were eye-tracked while studying 12 real-world scene images with an added object that was either semantically consistent or inconsistent. After a 6-minute distractor task, they drew the scenes from memory while pen movements were tracked electronically. Online scorers (N = 1,725) rated each drawing for diagnosticity, object detail, spatial detail, and memory errors. Inconsistent scenes were recalled more frequently, but contained less object detail. Further, inconsistent objects elicited more errors reflecting looser memory binding (e.g., migration across images). These results point to a dual effect in memory of boosted global (scene) but diminished local (object) information. Finally, we observed that participants fixate longest on inconsistent objects, but these fixations during study were not correlated with recall performance, time, or drawing order. In sum, these results show a nuanced effect of scene inconsistencies on memory detail during recall.

人类对视觉场景中特征和对象之间的统计关系高度敏感。场景中不一致的对象（例如，卧室中的邮箱）会立即跳出我们并引起我们的注意。然而，这种语义不一致是否会导致场景记忆增强、记忆受损或对记忆没有影响，仍存在争议。在这里，我们检查了场景-对象一致性与通过回忆期间绘制的绘图测量的记忆表示的关系。参与者 ( N = 30) 在研究 12 个真实世界场景图像时进行眼动追踪，其中添加了语义一致或不一致的对象。经过 6 分钟的干扰任务后，他们从记忆中画出场景，同时以电子方式跟踪笔的移动。在线记分员 (N = 1,725) 对每个绘图的诊断性、对象细节、空间细节和记忆错误进行评分。不一致的场景被更频繁地召回，但包含的对象细节更少。此外，不一致的对象引发更多的错误，反映了更松散的内存绑定（例如，跨图像迁移）。这些结果表明在记忆增强的全局（场景）但减少的局部（对象）信息方面存在双重影响。最后，我们观察到参与者对不一致对象的注视时间最长，但研究期间的这些注视与回忆表现、时间或绘图顺序无关。总之，这些结果显示了场景不一致对回忆过程中记忆细节的细微影响。