Individual difference in serial dependence results from opposite influences of perceptual choices and motor responses

Zhang, Huihui; Alais, David

doi:10.1101/631309

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“…Similar ideas are now emerging in related fields, such as serial dependence of orientation perception (e.g. Gekas, McDermott, & Mamassian, ; Zhang & Alais, ).…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 55%

“…We took this approach to avoid making the task too difficult for participants and to make analysis of the bias itself simpler, though other studies have used random response mappings between trials (e.g. Pape et al., ; Zhang & Alais, ).…”

Section: Experiments 2—methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We refer to a choice‐repetition bias here as it would account for the discrepancy between TOJ and SJ, and is more often found than a choice‐alternation bias (e.g. Pape et al., ; Zhang & Alais, ). Importantly, while a choice‐repetition bias would also produce changes in SJ distributions, it would only do so in terms of the response distribution amplitude, with no change in PSS (in this case taken as the mean of the distribution).…”

Section: Choice‐repetition Biasmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Rapid recalibration of temporal order judgements: Response bias accounts for contradictory results

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Matthews

et al. 2019

Eur J of Neuroscience

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Recent history influences subsequent perception, decision‐making and motor behaviours. In this article, we address a discrepancy in the effects of recent sensory history on the perceived timing of auditory and visual stimuli. In the synchrony judgement (SJ) task, similar timing relationships in consecutive trials seem more synchronous (i.e. less like the repeated temporal order). This effect is known as rapid recalibration and is consistent with a negative perceptual aftereffect. Interestingly, the opposite is found in the temporal order judgement (TOJ) task (positive rapid recalibration). We aimed to determine whether a simple bias to repeat judgements on consecutive trials (choice‐repetition bias) could account for the discrepant results in these tasks. Preliminary simulations and analyses indicated that a choice‐repetition bias could produce apparently positive rapid recalibration in the TOJ and not the SJ task. Our first experiment revealed no evidence of rapid recalibration of TOJs, but negative rapid recalibration of associated confidence. This suggests that timing perception was rapidly recalibrated, but that the negative recalibration effect was obfuscated by a positive bias effect. In our second experiment, we experimentally mitigated the choice‐repetition bias effect and found negative rapid recalibration of TOJs. We therefore conclude that timing perception is negatively rapidly recalibrated, and this is observed consistently across timing tasks. These results contribute to a growing body of evidence that indicates multisensory perception is constantly undergoing recalibration, such that perceptual synchrony is maintained. This work also demonstrates that participants’ task responses reflect judgements that are contaminated by independent biases of perception and decision‐making.

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“…Similar ideas are now emerging in related fields, such as serial dependence of orientation perception (e.g. Gekas, McDermott, & Mamassian, ; Zhang & Alais, ).…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 55%

Section: Experiments 2—methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Choice‐repetition Biasmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Rapid recalibration of temporal order judgements: Response bias accounts for contradictory results

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Matthews

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Eur J of Neuroscience

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“…Although we found response was key in forming positive serial dependence, it may be not due to the motor system per se. In fact, there are studies showing that motor responses show repulsive serial dependence, that is, a tendency of alternating motor responses between trials (Pape et al, 2017;Pape & Siegel, 2016;Zhang & Alais, 2020). It is possible that the positive serial dependence is the characteristic of working memory in stabilizing representations of the outside world by integrating information over time (Kiyonaga et al, 2017).…”

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“…Here, it is possible that the requirement of making responses helps transfer sensory information into working memory and strengthens the storage of rates in working memory, hence biasing the subsequent rates reproduction. The overall serial dependence may be the weighted average across these serial effects at each stage (Zhang & Alais, 2020), which could be the reason why previous studies found mixed results of serial dependence being repulsive or positive.…”

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Auditory Rate Perception Displays a Positive Serial Dependence

2020

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We investigated perceived timing in auditory rate perception using a reproduction task. The study aimed to test (a) whether central tendency occurs in rate perception, as shown for interval timing, and (b) whether rate is perceived independently on each trial or shows a serial dependence, as shown for other perceptual attributes. Participants were well able to indicate perceived rate as reproduced and presented rates were linearly related with a slope that approached unity, although tapping significantly overestimated presented rates. While the slopes approached unity, they were significantly less than 1, indicating a central tendency in which reproduced rates tended towards the mean of the presented range. We tested for serial dependency by seeing if current trial rate reproductions depended on the preceding rate. In two conditions, a positive dependence was observed. A third condition in which participants withheld responses on every second trial produced a negative dependency. These results suggest separate components of serial dependence linked to stimulus and response: Withholding responses reveals a negative perceptual effect, whereas making responses adds a stronger positive effect that is postperceptual and makes the combined effect positive. Together, these data show that auditory rate perception exhibits both central tendency and serial dependence effects.

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Same stimulus, same temporal context, different percept? Individual differences in hysteresis and adaptation when perceiving multistable dot lattices

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How we perceptually organize a visual stimulus depends not only on the stimulus itself, but also on the temporal and spatial context in which the stimulus is presented and on the individual processing the stimulus and context. Earlier research found both attractive and repulsive context effects in perception: tendencies to organize visual input similarly to preceding context stimuli (i.e., hysteresis, attraction) co-exist with tendencies that repel the current percept from the organization that is most dominant in these contextual stimuli (i.e., adaptation, repulsion). These processes have been studied mostly on a group level (e.g., Schwiedrzik et al., 2014). Using a Bayesian hierarchical model comparison approach, the present study ( N = 75) investigated whether consistent individual differences exist in these attractive and repulsive temporal context effects, with multistable dot lattices as stimuli. In addition, the temporal stability of these individual differences in context effects was investigated, and it was studied how the strength of these effects related to the strength of individual biases for absolute orientations. The results demonstrate that large individual differences in the size of attractive and repulsive context effects exist. Furthermore, these individual differences are highly consistent across timepoints (one to two weeks apart). Although almost everyone showed both effects in the expected direction, not every single individual did. In sum, the study reveals differences in how individuals combine previous input and experience with current input in their perception, and more generally, this teaches us that different individuals can perceive identical stimuli differently, even within a similar context.

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Individual difference in serial dependence results from opposite influences of perceptual choices and motor responses

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Rapid recalibration of temporal order judgements: Response bias accounts for contradictory results

Rapid recalibration of temporal order judgements: Response bias accounts for contradictory results

Auditory Rate Perception Displays a Positive Serial Dependence

Same stimulus, same temporal context, different percept? Individual differences in hysteresis and adaptation when perceiving multistable dot lattices

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