Introduction to research topic - binocular rivalry: A gateway to studying consciousness

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEPTEMBER, 2012, Pages 1-3

  Maier, Alexander ^a   Panagiotaropoulos, Theofanis I ^b   Tsuchiya, Naotsugu ^c,d,e,f,g   Keliris, Georgios A ^b,h  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^f RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EYE DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MYDRIASIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA RIVALRY; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 84867024287     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00263     Document Type: Article

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