#ECVP2025 submission deadline extended by two weeks! It's a miracle that keeps repeating every year...thank you @ecvp.bsky.social 😂

I will soon open a call for a 1.5-year postdoc position at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland). I will be co-chairing #ECVP2024 in Aberdeen next week (August 25-29th) with Prof. Constanze Hesse, so feel free to get in touch for an informal chat! 😉
@ecvp.bsky.social #visionscience

Surprisingly, both groups showed serial dependence, and the strength of the effect was largely comparable. Serial dependence was intact in schizophrenia (at least for this kind of standard task in the serial dependence field). 4/6 🧵

In a classic visual orientation adjustment task, we investigated serial dependence in 26 patients and 27 healthy controls to evaluate the influence of prior stimuli. 3/6 🧵

Serial dependence, where prior stimuli influence current perception, has been used to investigate the influence of prior visual information. We predicted reduced serial dependence in patients—i.e., a reduced influence of prior stimuli in perceptual tasks. 2/6🧵

It has been proposed that schizophrenia patients rely more on sensory input and less on prior information. According to this view, they are less affected by visual illusions that rely on perceptual priors. But is this really true?(shorturl.at/jmhKv) 1/6🧵

We consolidate this vast empirical evidence into a new theoretical framework, proposing that serial dependencies are manifestations of integration mechanisms called Continuity Fields: operators that smooth actions, perception, decisions, and memory over time. 6/8

If serial dependencies are purposeful effects, they should be selective rather than automatic—and indeed, this is what we found! Serial dependencies are tuned to the temporal, spatial, and featural properties of the environment, as well as to attentional resources. 5/8

Our literature review reveals that serial dependencies occur across various manifestations in action, perception, decisions, and memory. If serial dependencies are so pervasive and impactful, what purpose do they serve? 3/8

Serial dependencies are pervasive and ubiquitous. They alter the representations of features/objects and occur through many behavioural paradigms. Over decades, they have been referred to as priming, sequential dependencies or serial effects (review jov.arvojournals.org/Article.aspx...) 2/8

Our visual experience is biased towards the past. Despite extensive research on serial dependencies, their purpose remains unknown. In our @natrevpsych.bsky.social paper (rdcu.be/dD8of) we propose they are manifestations of Continuity Fields, purposeful integration mechanisms 1/8

mmm I am not sure these COVID warnings for my lectures are ageing very well...