ArticlePsychonomic bulletin & review2024
The push-pull of serial dependence effects: Attraction to the prior response and repulsion from the prior stimulus.
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- Neural substrates of duration serial dependence: Putamen suppression of the prior duration trace.Neuroimage. Reports · 2026Article
- 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
- Prior Trial Effects on Working Memory in Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and Healthy Control Individuals.JAMA psychiatry · 2026Article
- Different modality-specific mechanisms mediate serial dependence effects in visual and auditory perception.BMC biology · 2026Article
- Large-scale mega-analysis indicates that serial dependence deteriorates perceptual decision-making.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Is repulsive serial bias in visual perception driven by adaptation mechanisms?Journal of vision · 2026Article
- Investigating the effect of response autocorrelation on n-back analyses of serial dependence.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- Attractive and repulsive history effects in categorical and continuous estimates of orientation perception.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Process dynamics of serial biases in visual perception and working memory processes.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- Belief updating in decision-variable space: More fine-grained choices attract future ones more strongly.iScience · 2025Article
- Exploring the role of serial dependence in visual time perception.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Between repulsion and attraction in serial biases: Replication of Chen and Bae (2024).Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Effects of perceptual and decisional uncertainty on serial dependence in orientation perception.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 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
- The distinct development of stimulus and response serial dependence.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Article
- Opposing serial effects of stimulus and choice in speech perception scale with context variability.iScience · 2024Article
- Characterizing serial dependence as an attraction to prior response.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Integration of history information Drives Serial Dependence and Stabilizes Working Memory Representations.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Serial dependence: A matter of memory load.Heliyon · 2024Article
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Abstract
In the "serial dependence" effect, responses to visual stimuli appear biased toward the last trial's stimulus. However, several kinds of serial dependence exist, with some reflecting prior stimuli and others reflecting prior responses. One-factor analyses consider the prior stimulus alone or the prior response alone and can consider both variables only via separate analyses. We demonstrate that one-factor analyses are potentially misleading and can reach conclusions that are opposite from the truth if both dependencies exist. To address this limitation, we developed two-factor analyses (model comparison with hierarchical Bayesian modeling and an empirical "quadrant analysis"), which consider trial-by-trial combinations of prior response and prior stimulus. Two-factor analyses can tease apart the two dependencies if applied to a sufficiently large dataset. We applied these analyses to a new study and to four previously published studies. When applying a model that included the possibility of both dependencies, there was no evidence of attraction to the prior stimulus in any dataset, but there was evidence of attraction to the prior response in all datasets. Two of the datasets contained sufficient constraint to determine that both dependencies were needed to explain the results. For these datasets, the dependency on the prior stimulus was repulsive rather than attractive. Our results are consistent with the claim that both dependencies exist in most serial dependence studies (the two-dependence model was not ruled out for any dataset) and, furthermore, that the two dependencies work against each other.
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