A Bayesian and efficient observer model explains concurrent attractive and repulsive history biases in visual perception
- Radboud University, Netherlands
Abstract
Human perceptual decisions can be repelled away from (repulsive adaptation) or attracted towards recent visual experience (attractive serial dependence). It is currently unclear whether and how these repulsive and attractive biases interact during visual processing and what computational principles underlie these history dependencies. Here we disentangle repulsive and attractive biases by exploring their respective timescales. We find that perceptual decisions are concurrently attracted towards the short-term perceptual history and repelled from stimuli experienced up to minutes into the past. The temporal pattern of short-term attraction and long-term repulsion cannot be captured by an ideal Bayesian observer model alone. Instead, it is well captured by an ideal observer model with efficient encoding and Bayesian decoding of visual information in a slowly changing environment. Concurrent attractive and repulsive history biases in perceptual decisions may thus be the consequence of the need for visual processing to simultaneously satisfy constraints of efficiency and stability.
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All data and code are openly available on the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior repository at http://hdl.handle.net/11633/aac4scwf.
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Opposite Effects of Recent History on Perception and DecisionDonders Repository, data.donders.ru.nl.
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H2020 European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant 678286,'Contextvision')
- Matthias Fritsche
- Floris P de Lange
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO Veni grant 016.Veni.198.065)
- Eelke Spaak
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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Human subjects: The study followed institutional guidelines of the local ethics committee (CMO region Arnhem-Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Protocol CMO2014/288), including informed consent of all participants.
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© 2020, Fritsche et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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A Bayesian and efficient observer model explains concurrent attractive and repulsive history biases in visual perception
eLife 9:e55389.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.55389
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