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SUBMITTER: Kalm K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6711770 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kalm Kristjan K Norris Dennis D
Journal of vision 20180701 7
Human bias towards more recent events is a common and well-studied phenomenon. Recent studies in visual perception have shown that this recency bias persists even when past events contain no information about the future. Reasons for this suboptimal behavior are not well understood and the internal model that leads people to exhibit recency bias is unknown. Here we use a well-known orientation estimation task to frame the human recency bias in terms of incremental Bayesian inference. We show that ...[more]