Attractive and repulsive effects of sensory history concurrently shape visual perception.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Sequential effects of environmental stimuli are ubiquitous in most behavioral tasks involving magnitude estimation, memory, decision making, and emotion. The human visual system exploits continuity in the visual environment, which induces two contrasting perceptual phenomena shaping visual perception. Previous work reported that perceptual estimation of a stimulus may be influenced either by attractive serial dependencies or repulsive aftereffects, with a number of experimental variables suggested as factors determining the direction and magnitude of sequential effects. Recent studies have theorized that these two effects concurrently arise in perceptual processing, but empirical evidence that directly supports this hypothesis is lacking, and it remains unclear whether a

SUBMITTER: Moon J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9641899 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature