This study investigated whether and how visual representations of individual objects are bound in
memory to scene context. Participants viewed a series of naturalistic scenes, and memory for the visual
form of a target object in each scene was examined in a 2-alternative forced-choice test, with the
distractor object either a different object token or the target object rotated in depth. In Experiments 1 and
2, object memory performance was more accurate when the test object alternatives were displayed within
the original scene than when they were displayed in isolation, demonstrating object-to-scene binding.
Experiment 3 tested the hypothesis that episodic scene representations are formed through the binding of
object representations to scene locations. Consistent with this hypothesis, memory performance was more
accurate when the test alternatives were displayed within the scene at the same position originally
occupied by the target than when they were displayed at a different position.