Global competition dictates local suppression in pattern rivalry

Journal of Vision

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 668-677

  Maier, Alexander ^a   Logothetis, Nikos K ^a   Leopold, David A ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Monocular rivalry; Multistable perception; Perceptual organization; Visual suppression

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RIVALRY; PHENOMENOLOGY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 27644486697     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/5.9.2     Document Type: Article

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