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  • Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Human perception creates a stable experience despite a constantly changing visual world.
  • The continuity field, a spatiotemporal integration window, is a proposed mechanism for perceptual stability.
  • Serial dependence (SD) quantifies temporal integration in visual perception.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if temporal integration, measured by SD, affects subjective object appearance.
  • To determine if SD influences decisional stages in response determination.
  • To differentiate between perceptual and decisional accounts of SD.

Main Methods:

  • An oddball task was employed to compare visual objects.
  • Participants responded to the presence or absence of specific visual attributes (orientation).
  • Decorrelated responses were used to isolate the effect of SD on orientation perception.

Main Results:

  • Serial dependence (SD) was found to alter the perceived appearance of individual visual objects.
  • SD caused objects to appear different from surrounding distractors.
  • Performance was modulated by SD, indicating its influence on visual processing.

Conclusions:

  • The findings support SD operating at the perceptual level of visual processing.
  • Results argue against decisional accounts of serial dependence.
  • SD contributes to the construction of a stable visual experience.