Mountains and valleys: Binocular rivalry and the flow of experience

Consciousness and Cognition

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 623-641

  Cosmelli, Diego ^a   Thompson, Evan ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Binocular rivalry; Cortical dynamics; Metastability; Multistable perception; Neurophenomenology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FLOW RATE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOUNTAINEERING; NEUROSCIENCE; PERCEPTION; PHENOMENOLOGY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; CONSCIOUSNESS; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REFERENCE VALUES; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY); VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 34848851587     PISSN: 10538100     EISSN: 10902376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2007.06.013     Document Type: Article

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