Endogenous attention prolongs dominance durations in binocular rivalry

Journal of Vision

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1004-1012

  Chong, Sang Chul ^a,b   Tadin, Duje ^a   Blake, Randolph ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Attention; Binocular rivalry; Contrast enhancement; Dominance duration

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DOMINANCE; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 30544447939     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/5.11.6     Document Type: Article

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