Dynamics of history-dependent perceptual judgment

Hachen, Iacopo; Reinartz, Sebastian; Brasselet, Romain; Stroligo, Alisea; Diamond, Mathew E.

doi:10.1101/2020.07.12.199489

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“…Indeed, similar short-term dependencies have been reported within the auditory domain when participants were instructed to judge the direction of an auditory frequency sweep (Alais et al, 2015), the loudness (Holland & Lockhead, 1968;Jesteadt et al 1977), or the timbre (Piazza et al, 2018) of a sound. Serial dependencies have also been observed within the tactile domain when rats had to judge each vibrissae (or whiskers) vibration (Hachen et al, 2020).…”

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Serial Dependence of Emotion Within and Between Stimulus Sensory Modalities

Burg

Toet²,

Brouwer³

et al. 2021

Multisens. Res.

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How we perceive the world is not solely determined by what we sense at a given moment in time, but also by what we processed recently. Here we investigated whether such serial dependencies for emotional stimuli transfer from one modality to another. Participants were presented a random sequence of emotional sounds and images and instructed to rate the valence and arousal of each stimulus (Experiment 1). For both ratings, we conducted an intertrial analysis, based on whether the rating on the previous trial was low or high. We found a positive serial dependence for valence and arousal regardless of the stimulus modality on two consecutive trials. In Experiment 2, we examined whether passively perceiving a stimulus is sufficient to induce a serial dependence. In Experiment 2, participants were instructed to rate the stimuli only on active trials and not on passive trials. The participants were informed that the active and passive trials were presented in alternating order, so that they were able to prepare for the task. We conducted an intertrial analysis on active trials, based on whether the rating on the previous passive trial (determined in Experiment 1) was low or high. For both ratings, we again observed positive serial dependencies regardless of the stimulus modality. We conclude that the emotional experience triggered by one stimulus affects the emotional experience for a subsequent stimulus regardless of their sensory modalities, that this occurs in a bottom-up fashion, and that this can be explained by residual activation in the emotional network in the brain.

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Serial Dependence of Emotion Within and Between Stimulus Sensory Modalities

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Toet²,

Brouwer³

et al. 2021

Multisens. Res.

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“…Beyond the integrative mechanisms acting on the stimulus within the single trial, another factor that can cause nonlinearity in the percept or choice is the recent history of stimuli [37,38].…”

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A sensory integration account for time perception

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The connection between stimulus perception and time perception remains unknown. The present study combines human and rat psychophysics with sensory cortical neuronal firing to construct a computational model for the percept of elapsed time embedded within sense of touch. When subjects judged the duration of a vibration applied to the fingertip (human) or whiskers (rat), increasing stimulus intensity led to increasing perceived duration. Symmetrically, increasing vibration duration led to increasing perceived intensity. We modeled real spike trains recorded from vibrissal somatosensory cortex as input to dual leaky integrators–an intensity integrator with short time constant and a duration integrator with long time constant–generating neurometric functions that replicated the actual psychophysical functions of rats. Returning to human psychophysics, we then confirmed specific predictions of the dual leaky integrator model. This study offers a framework, based on sensory coding and subsequent accumulation of sensory drive, to account for how a feeling of the passage of time accompanies the tactile sensory experience.

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“…In visual perception, for instance, sequential effects occur not only for simple judgements on low-level visual features such as color (Barbosa and Compte 2020), orientation (Fischer and Whitney 2014), and motion (Alais et al 2017) but also for more complex judgements on facial attractiveness (Taubert et al 2016b) or the esthetics of paintings (Kim et al 2019). Similar short-term dependencies have been reported within the auditory (Alais et al 2015;Jesteadt et al 1977;Piazza et al 2018) and tactile domain (Hachen et al 2020), and even between different sensory modalities (Harvey et al 2014;Kayser and Kayser 2018;Van der Burg et al 2015a; Van der Burg and Goodbourn 2015; Wozny and Shams 2011).…”

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Sequential Effects in Odor Perception

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Brouwer³

et al. 2021

Chem. Percept.

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Introduction Our visual, auditory, and tactile perception is not solely determined by what we process at a given moment in time, but also determined by what we perceived recently. These sequential effects can either be negative (repulsive) or positive (assimilative). Here, we investigated whether such sequential effects also occur in odor perception. Method Participants rated a sequence of 40 different odors (varying widely in hedonic valence) on four different characteristics (intensity, familiarity, valence, and arousal). For each of these characteristics, we conducted an inter-trial analysis, based on whether the rating on the preceding trial was low or high. ResultsWe found a positive serial dependence for both odor intensity and familiarity ratings. That is, the rating on the current trial was higher when the rating on the previous trial was high than when the rating on the previous trial was low. We observed no sequential effects for odor valence and arousal ratings. Conclusion The olfactory system integrates previous stimuli into the current perception of intensity and familiarity. Implications The current findings may be relevant for marketing applications and may guide the design and use of olfactory-enhanced virtual and augmented reality systems.

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Dynamics of history-dependent perceptual judgment

Cited by 7 publications

References 57 publications

Serial Dependence of Emotion Within and Between Stimulus Sensory Modalities

Serial Dependence of Emotion Within and Between Stimulus Sensory Modalities

A sensory integration account for time perception

Sequential Effects in Odor Perception

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