Duality in binocular rivalry: Distinct sensitivity of percept sequence and percept duration to imbalance between monocular stimuli

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Song, Chen ^a,b   Yao, Haischan ^a  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MONOCULAR VISION; NORMAL HUMAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70249136167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006912     Document Type: Article

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