A control theory of sequential response production

Wiegersma, S.

doi:10.1007/bf00308449

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“…This result suggests that the object-selective continuity field maintains the stability of perceived facial expressions over time in a gender-dependent manner. These results also demonstrate that the positive serial dependence found in the same 1-back trials is not entirely due to previous motor responses or general response biases (Luce & Green, 1974;Tanner, Rauk, & Atkinson, 1970;Wiegersma, 1982aWiegersma, , 1982b, since responding on the previous trial did not elicit a serial dependence effect in both conditions. Experiment 3: Is serial dependence for emotional expression ethnicity dependent?…”

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“…A generalized response bias, or motor serial dependence would not predict the serial dependence we report (Luce & Green, 1974;Tanner et al, 1970;Wiegersma, 1982aWiegersma, , 1982b, since participants did not show expression serial dependence when they responded to a 1-back face from a different gender. Furthermore, adaptation and associated negative aftereffects, priming, and other phenomena show a type of perceptual dependence on the recent past, yet remain distinct from serial dependence and the CF.…”

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Serial dependence promotes the stability of perceived emotional expression depending on face similarity

Liberman

Manassi

Whitney

2018

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Individuals can quickly and effortlessly recognize facial expressions, which is critical for social perception and emotion regulation. This sensitivity to even slight facial changes could result in unstable percepts of an individual's expression over time. The visual system must therefore balance accuracy with maintaining perceptual stability. However, previous research has focused on our sensitivity to changing expressions, and the mechanism behind expression stability remains an open question. Recent results demonstrate that perception of facial identity is systematically biased toward recently seen visual input. This positive perceptual pull, or serial dependence, may help stabilize perceived expression. To test this, observers judged random facial expression morphs ranging from happy to sad to angry. We found a pull in perceived expression toward previously seen expressions, but only when the 1-back and current face had similar identities. Our results are consistent with the existence of the continuity field for expression, a specialized mechanism that promotes the stability of emotion perception, which could help facilitate social interactions and emotion regulation.

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Serial dependence promotes the stability of perceived emotional expression depending on face similarity

Liberman

Manassi

Whitney

2018

Atten Percept Psychophys

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“…This high level of production of adjacent repetitive units may have prevented them to generate a higher rate of adjacent units with the correct colors. Indeed, a strong tendency to avoid the production of repetitions has been reported by a number of authors in studies of healthy children and adults asked to generate sequences of discrete events (Frith, 1972;Mittenecker, 1958;Wiegersma, 1982;Witt and Vinter, in press). This anti-repetition bias constrains the introduction of repetitions within sequences, a large production of repetitions regardless of colors preventing the production of repetitions with specific colors.…”

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Artificial grammar learning in children: abstraction of rules or sensitivity to perceptual features?

Witt

Vinter

2011

Psychological Research

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We examined sensitivity to grammatical sequences of colors in an artificial grammar learning task in a sample of 120 children aged between 5 and 8 years. The aim of the experiment was to test whether the children would preferentially learn the specific salient features of the items they were exposed to or the rules that generated these items. The children were divided into two experimental groups (identical grammar but training items differing in their surface features) and a control group (random items). The results showed that regardless of age, participants learned the most frequent salient features of the items, as well as some kind of abstract relational information. However, the 8-year-olds presented a more complex result profile, with one of the experimental groups apparently developing sensitivity to grammatical rules. These results are discussed with reference to the main current models of implicit learning. Overall, the results provided more support for stimulus-specific processing models than for rule-based models.

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“…It has been attributed to a sequential response production mechanism using search and testing procedures for the selection of nonrepetitions (Wiegersma 1984a(Wiegersma , 1984b. Such spontaneous repetition avoidance has been found under various circumstances, in both adults and children (e.g., Gratch, 1964;Kreitler, Zigler, & Kreitler, 1984;McGill, 1957;Solomon, 1949;Wiegersma, 1982), and under different instructions (Kuhl & Schonpflug, 1974). Hitherto, there has been no investigation into whether a tendency to avoid repeating responses occurs in the conservation experiment, but the generality and involuntary nature of this tendency led us to the hypothesis that repetition avoidance might occur in conservation tasks.…”

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