1. Imagine being able to place your fingers on things in the world without being able to detect their properties in this way, but being able to refer to those things so you could move your gaze or attention to them. If you could you would possess FINgers of INSTantiation (FINSTs)!

2. Review of FINSTs and MOT
FINSTs as the mechansm by which the early vision module individuates, selects, refers to, and keeps track of individual things in a scene without using any encoding (or conceptualization) of their properties
MOT (and several other experimental paradigms) as demonstrations of FINSTs in action
FINSTs are the visual system’s analogue of individuation and demonstractive reference that works without the apparatus of concepts

3. FINST Theory postulates a small number of pointer mechanisms in early vision that are elicited by causal events in the visual field and that enable vision to refer to things without doing so under concept or description

4. The assumption is that we have a way to directly pick out individual distal elements as sensory individuals – not as bearers of certain known properties
Examples where such indexes are needed:
Incremental construction of visual representations – the correspondence problem over time (geometry example)
Encoding relational predicates; e.g., Collinear (x,y,z,..); Closed (C); Inside (x, C); Above (x,y); Square (w,x,y,z), requires simultaneously binding the arguments of n-place predicates to n elements in the visual scene
Evaluating such visual predicates requires individuating and referencing the objects over which the predicate is evaluated: i.e., the arguments in the predicate must be bound to individual objects in the scene.

5. Multiple Object Tracking Demos

6. Keep track of the objects that flash

7. It even works if objects are allowed to self occlude

8. Examples of additional findings with MOT
MOT with occlusion
MOT with virtual occluders
MOT with matched nonoccluding disappearance
Track endpoints of lines
Track rubber-band linked boxes
Track and remember ID by location
Track and remember ID by name (number)
Track while everything briefly disappears (½ sec) and goes on moving while invisible
Track while everything briefy disappears and reappears where they were when they disappeared

9. Demo of Object File Experiment
Object-Specific Priming Benefit

10. Demo of Object File Experiment