Saliency in a suppressed image affects the spatial origin of perceptual alternations during binocular rivalry

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 1913-1921

  Stuit, Sjoerd M ^a   Verstraten, Frans A J ^a   Paffen, Chris L E ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Binocular rivalry; Perceptual dominance; Saliency; Traveling wave; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA IMAGE; SCORING SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 77955841727     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.06.014     Document Type: Article

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