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Build-up of serial dependence in color working memory.
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- Process dynamics of serial biases in visual perception and working memory processes.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
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- Working Memory Guides Perceptual Decisions Through Fast Capture and Slow Drift.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Visual working memory prioritization modulates serial dependence beyond simple attentional effects.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
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Serial dependence, how immediately preceding experiences bias our current estimations, has been described experimentally during delayed-estimation of many different visual features, with subjects tending to make estimates biased towards previous ones. It has been proposed that these attractive biases help perception stabilization in the face of correlated natural scene statistics, although this remains mostly theoretical. Color, which is strongly correlated in natural scenes, has never been studied with regard to its serial dependencies. Here, we found significant serial dependence in 7 out of 8 datasets with behavioral data of humans (total n = 760) performing delayed-estimation of color with uncorrelated sequential stimuli. Moreover, serial dependence strength built up through the experimental session, suggesting metaplastic mechanisms operating at a slower time scale than previously proposed (e.g. short-term synaptic facilitation). Because, in contrast with natural scenes, stimuli were temporally uncorrelated, this build-up casts doubt on serial dependencies being an ongoing adaptation to the stable statistics of the environment.
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