A Primer on Binocular Rivalry, Including Current Controversies
Among psychologists and vision scientists, binocular rivalry has enjoyed sustained interest for decades dating back to the 19th century. In recent years, however, rivalry's audience has expanded to include neuroscientists who envision rivalry as a ''tool'' for exploring the...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Brain and mind (Dordrecht, Netherlands) Netherlands), 2001-04, Vol.2 (1), p.5-38 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Among psychologists and vision scientists, binocular rivalry has enjoyed sustained interest for decades dating back to the 19th century. In recent years, however, rivalry's audience has expanded to include neuroscientists who envision rivalry as a ''tool'' for exploring the neural concomitants of conscious visual awareness and perceptual organization. For rivalry's potential to be realized, workers using this ''tool'' need to know details of this fascinating phenomenon, and providing those details is the purpose of this article. After placing rivalry in a historical context, I summarize major findings concerning the spatial characteristics and the temporal dynamics of rivalry, discuss two major theoretical accounts of rivalry (''eye'' vs ''stimulus'' rivalry) and speculate on possible neural concomitants of binocular rivalry. |
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ISSN: | 1389-1987 1573-3300 |
DOI: | 10.1023/A:1017925416289 |