The dynamic boundaries of the Self: Serial dependence in the Sense of Agency

Stern, Yonatan; Ben-Yehuda, Inbar; Koren, Danny; Zaidel, Adam; Salomon, Roy

doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2022.03.015

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“…Attractive serial dependence has been reported to occur with a variety of stimuli, including line tilt 2 , motion 11 , faces 12 , numerosity perception 1,8 , and sense of agency 13 . These phenomena are similar in that they make the experience of the current stimulus similar to that of the past.…”

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Response boosts serial dependence in the numerosity estimation task

MORIMOTO,

MAKIOKA

2023

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Perceptions of current stimuli are sometimes biased toward or away from past perceptions. This phenomenon is called serial dependence. However, the strength of the effect of past responses on serial dependencehas not been fully elucidated. We conducted experiments with a task in which participants estimated the number of dot arrays (numerosity estimation task) and directly compared whether the strength of serial dependence changed in the numerosity estimation task when participants responded or did not respond in the immediately preceding trial. We also examined whether the strength of serial dependence affected the accuracy of the numerosity estimation. We found that attractive serial dependence was stronger when participants responded in the immediately preceding trial than when they only saw the stimulus. This was thought to have occurred because the symbols representing numbers are not activated by simply looking at the dot array. The results suggested that for serial dependence to occur, the representation used for the response on the current trial must have been activated in the previous trial. The magnitude of the serial dependence effect was not observed to affect numerosity estimation performance, and no evidence was found that serial dependence enhances accuracy in the numerosity estimation task.

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Response boosts serial dependence in the numerosity estimation task

MORIMOTO,

MAKIOKA

2023

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“…Attractive serial dependence has been reported to occur with a variety of stimuli, including line tilt 2 , motion 8 , faces 9 , number perception 1 , 6 , and sense of agency 10 . These phenomena are similar in that they make the experience of current stimuli similar to that of past experiences.…”

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“…The nature of serial dependence has been examined in tasks using diverse types of stimuli, including tilt perception 2 , 5 , number perception 1 , 6 , 7 , motion perception 8 , face perception 9 , and sense of agency 10 . Attractive serial dependence is thought to stabilize the perception of continuously changing stimuli in noise, such as blinking or occlusion by objects 5 , 11 .…”

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Serial dependence in estimates of the monetary value of coins

Morimoto

Makioka²

2022

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Perceptions of current stimuli are sometimes biased toward or away from past perceptions. This phenomenon is called serial dependence. However, it remains unclear whether serial dependence originates from lower-order perceptual processing, higher-order perceptual processing or cognitive processing. We examined the effects of serial dependence when participants estimated the total number of coins or the monetary value of coins displayed and found attractive effects in both tasks. The attractive effect observed in the value estimation task suggests that serial dependence occurs through higher-order cognitive processes during calculation. We also examined the effect of response history (i.e., the responses of participants on previous trials), with multiple regression analyses that simultaneously evaluated the effects of the previous stimuli and responses. In both number and value estimation tasks, the immediately prior response had an attractive effect on current responses, while the immediately prior stimuli exerted a repulsive effect. This pattern suggests that the attractive serial dependence found in the single regression analysis was due to the correlation between stimulus and response in the previous trials and that the effect of past stimuli per se may be an adaptation that increases sensitivity to current stimuli.

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“…Similar predictive mechanisms are thought to enable the segregation of exafferent (world-generated) versus reafferent (self-generated) sensory signals across numerous modalities. In humans, the sense of agency, our feeling of control over our actions, is similarly thought to arise from predictive processing of sensorimotor signals [80,92,93,109], allowing explicit segregation of the self from the world through volitional actions [72,[110][111][112][113].…”

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Multisensory decisions from self to world

Zaidel,

Salomon

2023

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Classic Bayesian models of perceptual inference describe how an ideal observer would integrate ‘unisensory’ measurements (multisensory integration) and attribute sensory signals to their origin(s) (causal inference). However, in the brain, sensory signals are always received in the context of a multisensory bodily state—namely, in combination with other senses. Moreover, sensory signals from both interoceptive sensing of one's own body and exteroceptive sensing of the world are highly interdependent and never occur in isolation. Thus, the observer must fundamentally determine whether each sensory observation is from an external (versus internal, self-generated) source to even be considered for integration. Critically, solving this primary causal inference problem requires knowledge of multisensory and sensorimotor dependencies. Thus, multisensory processing is needed to separate sensory signals. These multisensory processes enable us to simultaneously form a sense of self and form distinct perceptual decisions about the external world. In this opinion paper, we review and discuss the similarities and distinctions between multisensory decisions underlying the sense of self and those directed at acquiring information about the world. We call attention to the fact that heterogeneous multisensory processes take place all along the neural hierarchy (even in forming ‘unisensory’ observations) and argue that more integration of these aspects, in theory and experiment, is required to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of multisensory brain function. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Decision and control processes in multisensory perception’.

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The dynamic boundaries of the Self: Serial dependence in the Sense of Agency

Cited by 10 publications

References 78 publications

Response boosts serial dependence in the numerosity estimation task

Response boosts serial dependence in the numerosity estimation task

Serial dependence in estimates of the monetary value of coins

Multisensory decisions from self to world

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