How does the visual system represent continuity in the constantly changing visual input? A
recent proposal is that vision is serially dependent: Stimuli seen a moment ago influence …

Positive sequential dependencies are phenomena in which actions, perception, decisions,
and memory of features or objects are systematically biased toward visual experiences from …

Sensory responses and behavior are strongly shaped by stimulus history. For example,
perceptual reports are sometimes biased toward previously viewed stimuli (serial …

The ability to sustain internal representations of the sensory environment beyond immediate
perception is a fundamental requirement of cognitive processing. In recent years, debates …

Perception depends not only on the current sensory input but also on the preceding history
of stimuli. In serial dependence (SD), for example, the orientation of a Gabor patch is …

Background Sequential effects of environmental stimuli are ubiquitous in most behavioral
tasks involving magnitude estimation, memory, decision making, and emotion. The human …

Predictive coding theories propose that the brain constantly updates internal models to
minimize prediction errors and optimize sensory processing. However, the neural …

In any given perceptual task, the visual system selectively weighs or filters incoming
information. The particular set of weights or filters form a kind of template, which reveals the …

The central tendency bias, or contraction bias, is a phenomenon where the judgment of the
magnitude of items held in working memory appears to be biased toward the average of …

The regularities of the world render an intricate interplay between past and present. Even
across independent trials, current-trial perception can be automatically shifted by preceding …