The time course of binocular rivalry reveals a fundamental role of noise

Journal of Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Brascamp, Jan W ^a   van Ee, Raymond ^a   Noest, André J ^a   Jacobs, Richard H A H ^a   van den Berg, Albert V ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Binocular rivalry; Bistable perception; Levelt's second proposition; Neural models; Noise; Temporal dynamics; Visual awareness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; SIMULATION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADAPTATION; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE; INNERVATION; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ARTIFACTS; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; EYE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTORS; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 33750521589     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/6.11.8     Document Type: Article

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