You see what you look for: Targets and distractors in visual search can cause opposing serial dependencies.

ABSTRACT: Visual perception is, at any given moment, strongly influenced by its temporal context-what stimuli have recently been perceived and in what surroundings. We have previously shown that to-be-ignored items produce a bias upon subsequent perceptual decisions that acts in parallel with other biases induced by attended items. However, our previous investigations were confined to biases upon the perceived orientation of a visual search target, and it is unclear whether these biases influence perceptual decisions in a more general sense. Here, we test whether the biases from visual search targets and distractors affect the perceived orientation of a neutral test line, one that is neither a target nor a distractor. To do so, we asked participants to search for an oddly oriented line among distrac

SUBMITTER: Rafiei M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8419872 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature