Strength and coherence of binocular rivalry depends on shared stimulus complexity

Vision Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 269-279

  Alais, David ^a   Melcher, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binocular rivalry; Face adaptation; Face perception; Interocular suppression; Visual psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISION DISPARITY;

EID: 33845673762     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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