Visual distraction is a ubiquitous aspect of everyday life. Studying the consequences of
distraction during temporally extended tasks, however, is not tractable with traditional …

Many studies in perception and in the working memory literature demonstrate that human
observers systematically deviate from the truth when estimating the features of one item in …

This thesis examines the phenomenon of serial dependence, which is a cognitive bias that
occurs when previous perceptions influence the way present information is processed …