Attractive serial dependence arises during decision-making.

ABSTRACT: Recall of stimuli is biased by stimulus history, variously manifested as an attractive bias toward or repulsive bias from previous stimuli (i.e., serial dependence). It is unclear when attractive versus repulsive biases arise and if they share neural mechanisms. A recent model of attractive serial dependence proposes a two-stage process in which adaptation causes a repulsive bias during encoding that is later counteracted by an attractive bias at the decision-making stage in a Bayesian-inference-like manner. Neural evidence exists for a repulsive bias at encoding, but evidence for the attractive bias during the response period has been more elusive. We recently (Hajonides et al., J Neurosci 43:2730-40, 2023) showed in a working memory task that while different stimuli in trial history exer

SUBMITTER: Shan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12393773 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature