TY  - JOUR
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006912
SN  - 1932-6203
N2  - Visual perception is usually stable and accurate. However, when the two eyes are simultaneously presented with conflicting stimuli, perception falls into a sequence of spontaneous alternations, switching between one stimulus and the other every few seconds. Known as binocular rivalry, this visual illusion decouples subjective experience from physical stimulation and provides a unique opportunity to study the neural correlates of consciousness. The temporal properties of this alternating perception have been intensively investigated for decades, yet the relationship between two fundamental properties - the sequence of percepts and the duration of each percept - remains largely unexplored.
ID  - discovery147159
A1  - Song, C
A1  - Yao, H
KW  - Humans
KW  -  Models
KW  -  Neurological
KW  -  Pattern Recognition
KW  -  Visual
KW  -  Perception
KW  -  Photic Stimulation
KW  -  Software
KW  -  Time Factors
KW  -  Vision Disparity
KW  -  Vision
KW  -  Binocular
KW  -  Vision
KW  -  Ocular
KW  -  Visual Pathways
KW  -  Visual Perception
JF  - PLoS One
Y1  - 2009/09/07/
AV  - public
VL  - 4
TI  - Duality in binocular rivalry: distinct sensitivity of percept sequence and percept duration to imbalance between monocular stimuli.
IS  - 9
N1  - © 2009 Song, Yao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. PMCID: PMC2733155

This work was supported by the Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research Award G200803150480 to CS, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Grant KSCX2-YW-R-29 to HY, the National Basic Research Program of China Grant 2006CB806600 to HY, and the Shanghai Municipality Grant 06dj14010 to HY. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
ER  -