ArticleJournal of vision2021
You see what you look for: Targets and distractors in visual search can cause opposing serial dependencies.
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21 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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- Clashing memories in working memory modulate serial dependence.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The effect of sequence stability on serial dependence.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- Visual working memory prioritization modulates serial dependence beyond simple attentional effects.BMC biology · 2025Article
- Stronger reliance on visual perceptual history in individuals with higher math anxiety.BMC biology · 2025Article
- Investigating visual search mechanisms and enhancing the diagnostic potential of the trail making test using eTMT.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Continuity fields enhance visual perception through positive serial dependence.Nature reviews. Psychology · 2024Article
- Interpersonal prior information informs ensemble coding through the co-representation process.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Article
- Memory reports are biased by all relevant contents of working memory.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Response boosts serial dependence in the numerosity estimation task.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Serial dependence bias can predict the overall estimation error in visual perception.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Tuning perception and decisions to temporal context.iScience · 2023Article
- The effects of visual distractors on serial dependence.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Stronger serial dependence in the depth plane than the fronto-parallel plane between realistic objects: Evidence from virtual reality.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- The role of secondary features in serial dependence.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Priming of probabilistic attentional templates.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Review
- Serial dependence in visual perception: A review.Journal of vision · 2023Review
- Serial dependence in estimates of the monetary value of coins.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The effect of perceptual history on the interpretation of causality.Journal of vision · 2022Article
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Abstract
Visual perception is, at any given moment, strongly influenced by its temporal context-what stimuli have recently been perceived and in what surroundings. We have previously shown that to-be-ignored items produce a bias upon subsequent perceptual decisions that acts in parallel with other biases induced by attended items. However, our previous investigations were confined to biases upon the perceived orientation of a visual search target, and it is unclear whether these biases influence perceptual decisions in a more general sense. Here, we test whether the biases from visual search targets and distractors affect the perceived orientation of a neutral test line, one that is neither a target nor a distractor. To do so, we asked participants to search for an oddly oriented line among distractors and report its location for a few trials and next presented a test line irrelevant to the search task. Participants were asked to report the orientation of the test line. Our results indicate that in tasks involving visual search, targets induce a positive bias upon a neutral test line if their orientations are similar, whereas distractors produce an attractive bias for similar test lines and a repulsive bias if the orientations of the test line and the average orientation of the distractors are far apart in feature space. In sum, our results show that both attentional role and proximity in feature space between previous and current stimuli determine the direction of biases in perceptual decisions.
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