ArticlePLoS computational biology2023
A unitary mechanism underlies adaptation to both local and global environmental statistics in time perception.
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- Serial dependence in time perception requires consistent motor responses, not shared memory alone.British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953) · 2026Article
- Serial dependence does not build up to central tendency bias in orientation judgments.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- Neural Representation of Exogenous and Endogenous Temporal Expectations Based on fMRI.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2026Article
- Contextual effects during sensorimotor adaptation are an emergent property of population coding in a cerebellar-inspired model.Science advances · 2025Article
- Sequential effects in reaching reveal efficient coding in motor planning.Science advances · 2025Article
- Exploring the role of serial dependence in visual time perception.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Sequential Effects in Reaching Reveal Efficient Coding in Motor Planning.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Estimation bias and serial dependence in speed perception.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- A cerebellar population coding model for sensorimotor learning.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Same principle, but different computations in representing time and space.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
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Abstract
Our duration estimation flexibly adapts to the statistical properties of the temporal context. Humans and non-human species exhibit a perceptual bias towards the mean of durations previously observed as well as serial dependence, a perceptual bias towards the duration of recently processed events. Here we asked whether those two phenomena arise from a unitary mechanism or reflect the operation of two distinct systems that adapt separately to the global and local statistics of the environment. We employed a set of duration reproduction tasks in which the target duration was sampled from distributions with different variances and means. The central tendency and serial dependence biases were jointly modulated by the range and the variance of the prior, and these effects were well-captured by a unitary mechanism model in which temporal expectancies are updated after each trial based on perceptual observations. Alternative models that assume separate mechanisms for global and local contextual effects failed to capture the empirical results.
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