Facilitating Stable Representations: Serial Dependence in Vision

We tested whether the intervening time between multiple glances influences the independence of the resulting visual percepts. Observers estimated how many dots were present in brief displays that repeated one, two, three, four, or a random number of trials later. Estimates made farther apart in time were more independent, and thus carried more information about the stimulus when combined. In addition, estimates from different visual field locations were more independent than estimates from the same location. Our results reveal a retinotopic serial dependence in visual numerosity estimates, which may be a mechanism for maintaining the continuity of visual perception in a noisy environment.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  PLoS ONE

• Publication date

  2011-01-31

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0016701PMID 21304953PMCID 3031612
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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