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Serial dependence biases perception toward recent sensory input. This study shows serial dependence in visual perception, even when participants focus on other senses or make no decision, suggesting it stems from perception itself, not decision-making.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Science
Neuroscience
Visual Perception

Background:

Serial dependence influences perception by biasing current judgments toward recent past sensory information.
A key debate exists on whether serial dependence originates in perceptual processing or decision-making biases.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the locus of serial dependence by manipulating decision-making tasks in a multimodal context.
To determine if serial dependence is tied to the perceptual experience of the previous stimulus or the decision made about it.

Main Methods:

Three experiments used multimodal audiovisual stimuli (Gabor orientation and vowel sound).
Participants reported on one or both modalities, with randomized tasks and interleaved no-response trials to decouple perception from decision.
Stimulus-response mappings were manipulated across experiments.

Main Results:

Serial dependence was observed exclusively when participants reported visual modality (Gabor orientation).
Visual serial dependence persisted even when participants reported auditory stimuli or had no-response trials previously.
The prior visual stimulus alone was sufficient to induce serial dependence, irrespective of prior decisions.

Conclusions:

Serial dependence in this context is unlikely to be a decision-making artifact.
Findings support the view that serial dependence is rooted in the continuous perceptual processing of past stimuli.
The previous stimulus, not the previous decision, drives the observed serial dependence effect.