Serial Dependence across Perception, Attention, and Memory

Anastasia Kiyonaga; Jason M Scimeca; Daniel P Bliss; David Whitney

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2017.04.011

Serial Dependence across Perception, Attention, and Memory

Trends Cogn Sci. 2017 Jul;21(7):493-497. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.04.011. Epub 2017 May 23.

Authors

Anastasia Kiyonaga¹, Jason M Scimeca², Daniel P Bliss², David Whitney²

Affiliations

¹ Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Electronic address: kiyonaga@berkeley.edu.
² Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Abstract

Information that has been recently perceived or remembered can bias current processing. This has been viewed as both a corrupting (e.g., proactive interference in short-term memory) and stabilizing (e.g., serial dependence in perception) phenomenon. We hypothesize that this bias is a generally adaptive aspect of brain function that leads to occasionally maladaptive outcomes.

Keywords: proactive interference; serial dependence; working memory.

MeSH terms

Attention / physiology*
Bias
Humans
Memory, Short-Term*
Mental Recall*
Perception*
Proactive Inhibition*
Task Performance and Analysis

Abstract

MeSH terms

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