SynthesisJournal of vision2023
Serial dependence in visual perception: A meta-analysis and review.
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72 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
- Serial dependence does not build up to central tendency bias in orientation judgments.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- Retention interval modulates motion-history biases in visual motion perception.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
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- Serial dependence during visuomotor integration is robust to the passage of time and interference from intervening tasks.Memory & cognition · 2026Article
- Time, space and feature similarity determine attractive and repulsive serial biases in trustworthiness impressions.BMC biology · 2026Article
- Saccade-synchronized alpha rhythms predict strength of memory trace of stimulus orientation.BMC biology · 2026Article
- The role of context in continuity and segmentation.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Clashing memories in working memory modulate serial dependence.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- The late positive potential is associated with serial dependence effects in facial identity.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Serial dependence in goal-directed interceptive hand movements.BMC biology · 2026Article
- The effect of sequence stability on serial dependence.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- Sequential effects in facial attractiveness judgements: No evidence of stable individual differences.Perception · 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
- Serial dependence is stronger for peripheral than for central vision.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Cross-Modal Transfer as a Window Into the Investigation of Recent Stimulus and Response History in Perceptual Decision-Making.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- Serial dependencies and overt attention shifts.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Attractive and repulsive history effects in categorical and continuous estimates of orientation perception.Journal of vision · 2025Article
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Abstract
Positive sequential dependencies are phenomena in which actions, perception, decisions, and memory of features or objects are systematically biased toward visual experiences from the recent past. Among many labels, serial dependencies have been referred to as priming, sequential dependencies, sequential effects, or serial effects. Despite extensive research on the topic, the field still lacks an operational definition of what counts as serial dependence. In this meta-analysis, we review the vast literature on serial dependence and quantitatively assess its key diagnostic characteristics across several different domains of visual perception. The meta-analyses fully characterize serial dependence in orientation, face, and numerosity perception. They show that serial dependence is defined by four main kinds of tuning: serial dependence decays with time (temporal-tuning), it depends on relative spatial location (spatial-tuning), it occurs only between similar features and objects (feature-tuning), and it is modulated by attention (attentional-tuning). We also review studies of serial dependence that report single observer data, highlighting the importance of individual differences in serial dependence. Finally, we discuss a range of outstanding questions and novel research avenues that are prompted by the meta-analyses. Together, the meta-analyses provide a full characterization of serial dependence as an operationally defined family of visual phenomena, and they outline several of the key diagnostic criteria for serial dependence that should serve as guideposts for future research.
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