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Positive and negative hysteresis effects for the perception of geometric and emotional ambiguities.
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- Visual imagination can influence visual perception - towards an experimental paradigm to measure imagination.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Hysteresis reveals a happiness bias effect in dynamic emotion recognition from ambiguous biological motion.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Presenting rose odor during learning, sleep and retrieval helps to improve memory consolidation: a real-life study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Continuous dynamics in behavior reveal interactions between perceptual warping in categorization and speech-in-noise perception.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Positive hysteresis in emotion recognition: Face processing visual regions are involved in perceptual persistence, which mediates interactions between anterior insula and medial prefrontal cortex.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Recurrent processing improves occluded object recognition and gives rise to perceptual hysteresis.Journal of vision · 2021Article
- Top-down resolution of visual ambiguity - knowledge from the future or footprints from the past?PloS one · 2021Article
- How positive emotional content overrules perceptual history effects: Hysteresis in emotion recognition.Journal of vision · 2020Article
- Large EEG amplitude effects are highly similar across Necker cube, smiley, and abstract stimuli.PloS one · 2020Article
- Using the perceptual past to predict the perceptual future influences the perceived present - A novel ERP paradigm.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
aimThe present study utilizes perceptual hysteresis effects to compare the ambiguity of Mona Lisa's emotional face expression (high-level ambiguity) and of geometric cube stimuli (low-level ambiguity).
methodsIn two experiments we presented series of nine Mona Lisa variants and nine cube variants. Stimulus ambiguity was manipulated by changing Mona Lisa's mouth curvature (Exp. 1) and the cubes' back-layer luminance (Exp. 2). Each experiment consisted of three conditions, two with opposite stimulus presentation sequences with increasing and decreasing degrees of ambiguity, respectively, and a third condition with a random presentation sequence. Participants indicated happy or sad face percepts (Exp. 1) and alternative 3D cube percepts (Exp. 2) by key presses. We studied the influences of a priori perceptual biases (long-term memory) and presentation order (short-term memory) on perception.
resultsPerception followed sigmoidal functions of the stimulus ambiguity morphing parameters. The morphing parameter for the functions' inflection points depended strongly on stimulus presentation order with similar effect sizes but different signs for the two stimulus types (positive hysteresis / priming for the cubes; negative hysteresis / adaptation for Mona Lisa). In the random conditions, the inflection points were located in the middle between those from the two directional conditions for the Mona Lisa stimuli. For the cube stimuli, they were superimposed on one sigmoidal function for the ordered condition. DISCUSSION: The hysteresis effects reflect the influence of short-term memory during the perceptual disambiguation of ambiguous sensory information. The effects for the two stimulus types are of similar size, explaining up to 34% of the perceptual variance introduced by the paradigm. We explain the qualitative difference between positive and negative hysteresis with adaptation for Mona Lisa and with priming for the cubes. In addition, the hysteresis paradigm allows a quantitative determination of the impact of adaptation and priming during the resolution of perceptual ambiguities. The asymmetric shifts of inflection points in the case of the cube stimuli is likely due to an a priori perceptual bias, reflecting an influence of long-term memory. Whether corresponding influences also exist for the Mona Lisa variants is so far unclear.
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