The role of feature-based attention in visual serial dependence

Fritsche, Matthias; Lange, Floris P. de

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“…Studies on visual attention have shown that by selecting and limiting the information that is available at different levels of perceptual processing, attention can optimize perception, selecting stimuli of importance (Driver, 2001;Kristjánsson & Egeth, 2019). Interestingly, serial dependence is observed for attended items but not for unattended ones (Fischer & Whitney, 2014;Fornaciai & Park, 2018;Fritsche & de Lange, 2019;Liberman, Zhang, & Whitney, 2016). However, ignored items differ categorically from unattended ones.…”

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“…Such serial dependence has been shown to occur for stimulus dimensions as varied as shape (Manassi, Kristjánsson, & Whitney, 2019), position (Bliss, Sun, & D'Esposito, 2017;Manassi, Liberman, Kosovicheva, Zhang, & Whitney, 2018), eye gaze (Alais, Kong, Palmer, & Clifford, 2018), body size (Alexi et al, 2018), or perceived motion coherence (Suarez-Pinilla, Seth, & Roseboom, 2018). Fischer and Whitney (2014) found that serial dependence was produced by attended items only and suggested that attention serves as a "gating" mechanism for serial dependence (see also Fornaciai & Park, 2018;Fritsche & de Lange, 2019). We therefore expect that previously attended items will bias the perception of the current target in the context of visual search as well, further optimizing target perception.…”

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Optimizing perception: Attended and ignored stimuli create opposing perceptual biases

Rafiei

Hansmann-Roth

Whitney

et al. 2020

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Humans have remarkable abilities to construct a stable visual world from continuously changing input. There is increasing evidence that momentary visual input blends with previous input to preserve perceptual continuity. Most studies have shown that such influences can be traced to characteristics of the attended object at a given moment. Little is known about the role of ignored stimuli in creating this continuity. This is important since while some input is selected for processing, other input must be actively ignored for efficient selection of the task-relevant stimuli. We asked whether attended targets and actively ignored distractor stimuli in an odd-one-out search task would bias observers' perception differently. Our observers searched for an oddly oriented line among distractors and were occasionally asked to report the orientation of the last visual search target they saw in an adjustment task. Our results show that at least two opposite biases from past stimuli influence current perception: A positive bias caused by serial dependence pulls perception of the target toward the previous target features, while a negative bias induced by the to-be-ignored distractor features pushes perception of the target away from the distractor distribution. Our results suggest that to-be-ignored items produce a perceptual bias that acts in parallel with other biases induced by attended items to optimize perception. Our results are the first to demonstrate how actively ignored information facilitates continuity in visual perception.

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Optimizing perception: Attended and ignored stimuli create opposing perceptual biases

Rafiei

Hansmann-Roth

Whitney

et al. 2020

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“…Second, the task. We chose a continuous report paradigm in our experiments, as it provides precise trial-wise errors and has proven to be very reliable in measurements of serial dependence in the past (Cicchini et al, 2017(Cicchini et al, , 2021Fritsche & de Lange, 2019;Fritsche et al, 2017;Liberman et al, 2014). Given the radiologists' time constraints and resulting limited number of trials, we considered this task to be relatively efficient.…”

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“…Third, spatial tuning: serial dependence occurs only within a limited spatial window; it is strongest when previous and current objects are presented at the same location, and it gradually decays as the relative distance increases (Bliss et al, 2017;Collins, 2019;Manassi et al, 2018). In addition, attention is a necessary component for serial dependence Fritsche & de Lange, 2019;Kim et al, 2020).…”

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Serial dependence in the perceptual judgments of radiologists

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In radiological screening, clinicians scan myriads of radiographs with the intent of recognizing and differentiating lesions. Even though they are trained experts, radiologists’ human search engines are not perfect: average daily error rates are estimated around 3–5%. A main underlying assumption in radiological screening is that visual search on a current radiograph occurs independently of previously seen radiographs. However, recent studies have shown that human perception is biased by previously seen stimuli; the bias in our visual system to misperceive current stimuli towards previous stimuli is called serial dependence. Here, we tested whether serial dependence impacts radiologists’ recognition of simulated lesions embedded in actual radiographs. We found that serial dependence affected radiologists’ recognition of simulated lesions; perception on an average trial was pulled 13% toward the 1-back stimulus. Simulated lesions were perceived as biased towards the those seen in the previous 1 or 2 radiographs. Similar results were found when testing lesion recognition in a group of untrained observers. Taken together, these results suggest that perceptual judgements of radiologists are affected by previous visual experience, and thus some of the diagnostic errors exhibited by radiologists may be caused by serial dependence from previously seen radiographs.

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“…Recent studies have revealed robust short-term influences of prior stimulation in delayed-response and working-memory tasks (Bae & Luck, 2017; Cicchini, Anobile, & Burr, 2014; Cicchini, Mikellidou, & Burr, 2018; Czoschke, Fischer, Beitner, Kaiser, & Bledowski, 2019; Czoschke, Peters, Rahm, Kaiser, & Bledowski, 2020; Fischer & Whitney, 2014; Fritsche, Mostert, & de Lange, 2017). In these studies, perceptual decision making is systematically influenced by stimulus features presented earlier in the trial (Bae & Luck, 2017; Czoschke, Fischer, Beitner, Kaiser, & Bledowski, 2019; Czoschke, Peters, Rahm, Kaiser, & Bledowski, 2020; Fritsche & de Lange, 2019; Fritsche, Mostert, & de Lange, 2017), in the previous trial (Cicchini, Mikellidou, & Burr, 2017; Cicchini, Mikellidou, & Burr, 2018; Fritsche, Mostert, & de Lange, 2017; Makovski & Jiang, 2008), or multiple trials back (Fritsche, Solomon, & De Lange, 2021; Fritsche, Spaak, & de Lange, 2020; Gekas, McDermott, & Mamassian, 2019; Suárez-Pinilla, Seth, & Roseboom, 2018). More specifically, items are reported as more similar to the task-relevant stimulus on a previous trial.…”

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Multiple and Dissociable Effects of Sensory History on Working-Memory Performance

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Ede²,

Stokes

et al. 2021

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Behavioural reports of sensory information are biased by stimulus history. The nature and direction of such serial-dependence biases can differ between experimental settings – both attractive and repulsive biases towards previous stimuli have been observed. How and when these biases arise in the human brain remains largely unexplored. They could occur either via a change in sensory processing itself, post-perceptual maintenance or decision-making processes, or both. Here, we analysed behavioural and magnetoencephalographic data from a working-memory task in which participants were sequentially presented with two randomly oriented gratings, one of which was cued for recall at the end of the trial. Behavioural responses showed evidence for two distinct biases: 1) a within-trial repulsive bias away from the previously encoded orientation on the same trial, and 2) a between-trial attractive bias towards the task-relevant orientation on the previous trial. Multivariate classification of stimulus orientation revealed that neural representations during stimulus encoding were biased away from the previous grating orientation, regardless of whether we considered the within- or between-trial prior orientation – despite opposite effects on behaviour. These results suggest that repulsive biases occur at the level of sensory processing and can be overturned at post-perceptual stages to result in attractive biases in behaviour.

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The role of feature-based attention in visual serial dependence

Cited by 14 publications

References 32 publications

Optimizing perception: Attended and ignored stimuli create opposing perceptual biases

Optimizing perception: Attended and ignored stimuli create opposing perceptual biases

Serial dependence in the perceptual judgments of radiologists

Multiple and Dissociable Effects of Sensory History on Working-Memory Performance

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