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Individual differences in the tendency to see the expected
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posted on 2023-06-07, 07:35 authored by Nora Andermane, Jenny BostenJenny Bosten, Anil SethAnil Seth, Jamie WardJamie WardResearch has established that prior knowledge of visual stimuli facilitates their entry into awareness. We adopted an individual differences approach to explore whether a tendency to ‘see the expected’ is general or method-specific. We administered a binocular rivalry task and manipulated selective attention, as well as induced expectations via predictive context, self-generated imagery, expectancy cues, and perceptual priming. Most prior manipulations led to a facilitated awareness of the biased percept in binocular rivalry, whereas strong signal primes led to a suppressed awareness, i.e., adaptation. Correlations and factor analysis revealed that the facilitatory effect of priors on visual awareness is closely related to attentional control. We also investigated whether expectation-based biases predict perceptual abilities. Adaptation to strong primes predicted improved naturalistic change detection and the facilitatory effect of weak primes predicted the experience of perceptual anomalies. Taken together, our results indicate that the facilitatory effect of priors may be underpinned by an attentional mechanism but the tendency to ‘see the expected’ is method-specific.
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Consciousness and CognitionISSN
1053-8100Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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85Page range
1-20Article number
a102989Department affiliated with
- Psychology Publications
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2020-07-22First Open Access (FOA) Date
2021-09-18First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2020-07-21Usage metrics
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