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Jiao Wu¹, Halid Oğuz Serçe², Zhuanghua Shi¹

¹Department Psychologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.

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Summary

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Recent experiences bias current time judgments. This study shows that consistent motor responses, not just shared memory, are crucial for this serial dependence effect in temporal perception tasks.

Keywords:

decisional carryover motor response sequential biases serial dependence

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Psychology
Decision Science

Background:

Serial dependence, the influence of recent experience on current responses, is debated regarding the necessity of consistent motor responses.
Previous research on time perception yielded conflicting results on the role of motor output in serial dependence.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether serial dependence in time perception persists when tasks share identical stimulus features but differ in response modes.
To test the hypothesis that response-feature binding retrieval, as proposed by binding and retrieval in action control (BRAC) theory, drives serial dependence.

Main Methods:

Interleaved temporal reproduction and bisection tasks with a post-cue design to maintain constant duration encoding while varying motor output.
Structural equation modelling (SEM) to differentiate between perceptual (stimulus-driven) and decisional (response-driven) components of serial dependence.
Comparison of serial dependence effects within and across tasks with differing response modes.

Main Results:

Replicated repulsive perceptual serial dependence and attractive decisional carryover within the same task.
Observed that both perceptual and decisional serial dependence effects disappeared across tasks when response modes differed, despite identical stimulus processing.
SEM revealed repulsive perceptual influences not detected by standard regression, underscoring its utility in isolating overlapping effects.

Conclusions:

Response-mode consistency, rather than solely shared memory representations, is the primary driver of sequential biases in temporal judgments.
Response-specific reactivation of event files underlies serial dependence in temporal decision-making.
The findings challenge existing theories by emphasizing the critical role of motor output in shaping perceptual and decisional biases.