Learning and memory for visual frozen noise sequences

In each experiment, human observers saw samples of 8 Hz temporally modulated 1D or 2D contrast noise sequences that were either uncorrelated across an entire one-second long stimulus sequence, or comprised two frozen noise sequences that repeated identically between a stimulus' first and second 500 ms halves ("Repeated" noise). Presented with randomly intermixed stimuli of both types, observers were asked to judge whether each sequence repeated or not. Additionally, a particular sample of Repeated noise (a frozen or "Fixed Repeated" noise) was interspersed multiple times within a block of trials.

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