Reinforcement of perceptual inference: Reward and punishment alter conscious visual perception during binocular rivalry

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue DEC, 2014, Pages

  Wilbertz, Gregor ^a   Van Slooten, Joanne ^a   Sterzer, Philipp ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binocular rivalry; Perceptual inference; Punishment; Reward; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923345822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01377     Document Type: Article

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