Multistage model for binocular rivalry.
@article{Freeman2005MultistageMF,
title={Multistage model for binocular rivalry.},
author={Alan W. Freeman},
journal={Journal of neurophysiology},
year={2005},
volume={94 6},
pages={
4412-20
}
}Binocular rivalry is the alternating perception that occurs when incompatible stimuli are presented to the two eyes: one monocular stimulus dominates vision and then the other stimulus dominates, with a perceptual switch occurring every few seconds. There is a need for a binocular rivalry model that accounts for both well-established results on the timing of dominance intervals and for more recent evidence on the distributed neural processing of rivalry. The model for binocular rivalry…
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