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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception
  • Electrophysiology

Background:

  • Recent history systematically biases perceptual decisions, leading to attractive and repulsive serial dependence.
  • Omitting a response may alter these biases and their underlying neural mechanisms, but this is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the electroencephalography (EEG) correlates of response-requirement effects on serial dependence in visual orientation judgments.
  • To understand how interrupting the perception-action cycle influences attractive and repulsive biases and neural activity.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed visual orientation judgments.
  • EEG data were recorded during trials with and without response requirements.
  • Behavioral biases (serial dependence) and EEG measures (evoked responses, neural representations) were analyzed.

Main Results:

  • No-response trials led to reduced attractive and increased repulsive biases compared to response trials.
  • No-response trials showed stronger evoked responses and enhanced neural representations on subsequent trials.
  • These electrophysiological changes correlated with the observed behavioral shifts in serial dependence.

Conclusions:

  • Interrupting the perception-action cycle reshapes the balance between attractive and repulsive serial dependence.
  • This interruption promotes neural reengagement with sensory input, evidenced by distinct electrophysiological signatures.
  • The findings clarify the neural basis for response-requirement effects on perceptual decision-making biases.