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In the present work, we investigated the extent to which the prioritization of an object change was modulated by object salience in natural scene viewing. Scenes and objects were selected from the LabelMe database [Russell, BC, Torralba, A., Murphy, KP, & Freeman, WT (2008). LabelMe: a database and web-based tool for image annotation. International journal of computer vision, 77 (1-3), 157-173.] and the salience of a selected object was manipulated by either increasing or decreasing the luminance contrast. In a task similar to that used in previous work [eg, Brockmole, JR, & Henderson, JM (2005). Prioritization of new objects in real-world scenes: evidence from eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31 (5), 857.], we asked observers to look around a scene in preparation for a later memory test. After a period of time, the salience of an object in the scene …