ArticleJournal of vision2018
Serial dependence in numerosity perception.
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54 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Serial dependence in visual perception: A meta-analysis and review.Journal of vision · 2023Pooled it
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- Cross-Modal Transfer as a Window Into the Investigation of Recent Stimulus and Response History in Perceptual Decision-Making.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- Serial dependencies and overt attention shifts.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Numerosity adaptation suppresses early visual responses.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Stronger reliance on visual perceptual history in individuals with higher math anxiety.BMC biology · 2025Article
- The across-trial accumulation of cardinal illusion in orientation estimation attenuates the significance of serial dependence.Psychological research · 2025Article
- Exploring the role of serial dependence in visual time perception.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Distinct serial dependence between small and large numerosity processing.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Color crowding considered as adaptive spatial integration.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Positive serial dependence in ratings of food images for appeal and calories.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
- The impact of task measurements on sequential dependence: a comparison between temporal reproduction and discrimination tasks.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Integration of history information Drives Serial Dependence and Stabilizes Working Memory Representations.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Visual continuum in non-human animals: serial dependence revealed in dogs.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Serial dependence requires visual awareness: Evidence from continuous flash suppression.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Continuity fields enhance visual perception through positive serial dependence.Nature reviews. Psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Our conscious experience of the external world is remarkably stable and seamless, despite the intrinsically discontinuous and noisy nature of sensory information. Serial dependencies in visual perception-reflecting attractive biases making a current stimulus to appear more similar to previous ones-have been recently hypothesized to be involved in perceptual continuity. However, while these effects have been observed across a variety of visual features and at the neural level, several aspects of serial dependence and how it generalizes across visual dimensions is still unknown. Here we explore the behavioral signature of serial dependence in numerosity perception by assessing how the perceived numerosity of dot-array stimuli is biased by a task-irrelevant "inducer" stimulus presented before task-relevant stimuli. First, although prior work suggests that numerosity perception starts in the subcortex, the current study rules out a possible involvement of subcortical processing in serial dependence, confirming that the effect likely starts in the visual cortex. Second, we show that the effect is coarsely spatially localized to the position of the inducer stimulus. Third, we demonstrate that the effect is present even with a stimulus presentation procedure minimizing the involvement of post-perceptual processes, but only when participants actively pay attention to the inducer stimulus. Overall, these results provide a comprehensive characterization of serial dependencies in numerosity perception, demonstrating that attractive biases occur by means of spatially localized attentional modulations of early sensory activity.
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