ICPS 2023 · Pre-existing categorization diminishes attractive and repulsive temporal history effects on perception

Eline Van Geert & Johan Wagemans
International Convention of Psychological Science 2023 · March 9, 2023 · Brussels, Belgium

In a study assessing perceptual categorization of shapes, we investigated effects of the category evidence and perceived category for one stimulus on the categorization of the next. Attractive and repulsive temporal history effects were present when categorizing morphs between newly formed categories but not when categorizing morphs between pre-existing categories.