Onset rivalry: The initial dominance phase is independent of ongoing perceptual alternations

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue DECEMBER, 2011, Pages

  Stanley, Jody ^a   Forte, Jason D ^a   Cavanagh, Patrick ^b,c   Carter, Olivia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Awareness; Binocular rivalry; Bistable stimuli; Perceptual bias; Suppression; Vision; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; COGNITION; EYE DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MEMORY; MONOCULAR VISION; RETINA DISEASE; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 85083347781     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00140     Document Type: Article

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