CORRECTIONS TO: Maldonado Moscoso, P. A., Burr, D. C., & Cicchini, G. M. (2023). Serial dependence improves performance and biases confidence-based decisions.
Journal of Vision, 23(7):5, 1–10,
https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.23.7.5.
The first paragraph of the Introduction has been changed.
Original published version:
We live under the impression of perceiving the world simply as it is. Yet, perception is systematically distorted by spatial and temporal context, strikingly evident in many illusions, such as Gregory's (1997) “hollow mask illusion” (
https://michaelbach.de/ot/fcs-hollowFace/). In the temporal domain, studies on
serial dependence (Cicchini, Mikellidou, & Burr, in press) have shown that human perception of a stimulus is systematically biased toward stimuli presented just before. In a typical serial dependence (SD) task, observers adjust, say, the orientation of a Gabor patch in a series of trials. Even though the interval between consecutive Gabors can be quite long (up to 5 seconds), responses to the present Gabor are systematically biased toward orientations seen a few trials before.
We are brought to think that our perceptual experience of the world is always truthful. However, as experienced during many illusions, such as Gregory's (1997) “hollow mask illusion” (
https://michaelbach.de/ot/fcs-hollowFace/), perception may be biased by spatial and temporal context. Studies investigating serial dependence (SD; Cicchini, Mikellidou, & Burr, in press) showed that individual perceptual judgments of the current stimulus tend to incorporate past information even after a long time, robustly influencing current perception.