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Psychophysics is a field of methodology within psychology concerned with studying the sensation of stimuli. Psychophysics methods typically record the effect of systematic modulation of stimuli on a subject’s perception.
Experiences of objects and features are biased to appear more like previously seen stimuli than they really are. In this Perspective, Manassi and Whitney describe this phenomenon of positive serial dependence and propose continuity fields as the underlying mechanism.
As more mouse models are produced, researchers studying neuropsychiatric diseases will need better ways to evaluate them and more realistic assessment of the results.
