ArticleJournal of cognition2022
The Influence of Active Removal from Working Memory on Serial Dependence.
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- Serial dependence in visual perception: A meta-analysis and review.Journal of vision · 2023Pooled it
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- Attractive serial dependence arises during decision-making.PLoS biology · 2025Article
- EEG Correlates of Active Removal from Working Memory.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Temporal Dynamics and Representational Consequences of the Control of Processing Conflict between Visual Working Memory and Visual Perception.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2025Article
- Serial bias and response time: Prior stimulus not only biases but also modulates the speed of decision for a new stimulus.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Serial dependence: A matter of memory load.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Continuity fields enhance visual perception through positive serial dependence.Nature reviews. Psychology · 2024Article
- Are irrelevant items actively deleted from visual working memory?: No evidence from repulsion and attraction effects in dual-retrocue tasks.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Attractive and repulsive serial dependence: The role of task relevance, the passage of time, and the number of stimuli.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Serial dependence in visual perception: A review.Journal of vision · 2023Review
- Flexible top-down control in the interaction between working memory and perception.Journal of vision · 2022Article
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Abstract
Flexible control of the contents of working memory (WM) includes removing no-longer-relevant information. Although simply withdrawing attention offers a "passive" mechanism, empirical findings suggest that it is also possible to actively remove information from WM. In this Registered Report we tested evidence that the bias (serial dependence) that an item exerts on the subsequent trial will be opposite in sign-attraction vs. repulsion - depending on whether it was passively or actively removed, respectively. A repulsive bias would be consistent with a specific mechanism for active removal: a rapid adaptation-like modification of perceptual circuitry. In a preliminary study, trials of two types were administered in pairs, multi-item WM followed by 1-item delayed recall, and we evaluated serial dependence of the latter on items from the former. In the first trial of each pair, two memoranda were presented, then one was designated irrelevant, then a third memorandum was presented. The critical manipulation was whether the third item was presented at the same location as the now "irrelevant memory item" (IMI). Overlap between the two should prompt the active removal of the IMI, whereas nonoverlap might prompt just the withdrawal of attention. Whereas the IMI exerted the expected attractive bias on 1-item recall in the
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