ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Working Memory Maintenance Modulates Serial Dependence Effects of Perceived Emotional Expression.
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- Serial dependence in visual perception: A meta-analysis and review.Journal of vision · 2023Pooled it
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- Attractive and repulsive history effects in categorical and continuous estimates of orientation perception.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Visual working memory prioritization modulates serial dependence beyond simple attentional effects.BMC biology · 2025Article
- Exploring the role of serial dependence in visual time perception.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Individual differences reveal similarities in serial dependence effects across perceptual tasks, but not to oculomotor tasks.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Visual continuum in non-human animals: serial dependence revealed in dogs.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Continuity fields enhance visual perception through positive serial dependence.Nature reviews. Psychology · 2024Article
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- Serial dependence requires visual awareness: Evidence from continuous flash suppression.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Serial dependence in facial identity perception and visual working memory.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Serial dependence in emotion perception mirrors the autocorrelations in natural emotion statistics.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Serial dependence in visual perception: A review.Journal of vision · 2023Review
- 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
- Illusion of visual stability through active perceptual serial dependence.Science advances · 2022Article
- Serial dependence revealed in history-dependent perceptual templates.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
- How positive emotional content overrules perceptual history effects: Hysteresis in emotion recognition.Journal of vision · 2020Article
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Abstract
The stability of face perception is vital in interpersonal interactions. Recent studies have revealed the mechanism of the stability in the perception of stable attributes of faces (such as facial identity) by serial dependence, a phenomenon in which perception of current stimuli is pulled toward recently viewed stimuli. However, whether serial dependence of perceived emotional expression (a changeable attribute of faces) exists remains controversial, and its exact nature has not been examined yet. To address these issues, we used the methods of constant stimuli and two-interval forced choice tasks in three psychophysical experiments. Participants compared two successive facial expressions selected from a continuum with 50 morphed faces ranging from sad to happy. Experiment 1a and 1b showed that a perceived facial expression pulled toward previously seen facial expressions (i.e., a significant serial dependence effect), independent of response instructions. Furthermore, a stronger serial dependence effect was found when the first facial expression was retained in working memory for a longer delay duration (Experiment 2), and yet a weaker serial dependence effect was observed when a longer delay between decision and response was performed (Experiment 3). These findings indicate that serial dependence facilitates the stability of facial expression perception and is modulated by working memory representations.
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