The Role of Voluntary and Involuntary Attention in Selecting Perceptual Dominance during Binocular Rivalry
@article{Hancock2007TheRO,
title={The Role of Voluntary and Involuntary Attention in Selecting Perceptual Dominance during Binocular Rivalry},
author={Sarah Hancock and Timothy J. Andrews},
journal={Perception},
year={2007},
volume={36},
pages={288 - 298}
}When incompatible images are presented to corresponding regions of each eye, perception alternates between the two monocular views (binocular rivalry). In this study, we have investigated how involuntary (exogenous) and voluntary (endogenous) attention can influence the perceptual dominance of one rival image or the other during contour rivalry. Subjects viewed two orthogonal grating stimuli that were presented to both eyes. Involuntary attention was directed to one of the grating stimuli with…
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