title: Facilitating stable representations: serial dependence in vision.
abstract: We tested whether the intervening time between multiple glances influences the independence of the resulting visual percepts. Observers estimated how many dots were present in brief displays that repeated one, two, three, four, or a random number of trials later. Estimates made farther apart in time were more independent, and thus carried more information about the stimulus when combined. In addition, estimates from different visual field locations were more independent than estimates from the same location. Our results reveal a retinotopic serial dependence in visual numerosity estimates, which may be a mechanism for maintaining the continuity of visual perception in a noisy environment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America. jennifer.e.corbett@gmail.com
authors.forename: Jennifer E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Corbett
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Whitney
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D013997:Time Factors; D014785:Vision, Ocular; D014794:Visual Fields; D014796:Visual Perception; D055815:Young Adult