Serial dependence in the perception of faces.

ABSTRACT: From moment to moment, we perceive objects in the world as continuous despite fluctuations in their image properties due to factors like occlusion, visual noise, and eye movements. The mechanism by which the visual system accomplishes this object continuity remains elusive. Recent results have demonstrated that the perception of low-level stimulus features such as orientation and numerosity is systematically biased (i.e., pulled) toward visual input from the recent past. The spatial region over which current orientations are pulled by previous orientations is known as the continuity field, which is temporally tuned for the past 10-15 s. This perceptual pull could contribute to the visual stability of low-level features over short time periods, but it does not address how visual stability o

SUBMITTER: Liberman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4254333 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature