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| Title |
Why is Binocular Rivalry Uncommon? Discrepant Monocular Images in the Real World
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2011
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00116 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Derek Henry Arnold |
| Abstract |
When different images project to corresponding points in the two eyes they can instigate a phenomenon called binocular rivalry (BR), wherein each image seems to intermittently disappear such that only one of the two images is seen at a time. Cautious readers may have noted an important caveat in the opening sentence - this situation can instigate BR, but usually it doesn't. Unmatched monocular images are frequently encountered in daily life due to either differential occlusions of the two eyes or because of selective obstructions of just one eye, but this does not tend to induce BR. Here I will explore the reasons for this and discuss implications for BR in general. It will be argued that BR is resolved in favor of the instantaneously stronger neural signal, and that this process is driven by an adaptation that enhances the visibility of distant fixated objects over that of more proximate obstructions of an eye. Accordingly, BR would reflect the dynamics of an inherently visual operation that usually deals with real-world constraints. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 78 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 3% |
| Canada | 2 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |
| China | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 70 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 21% |
| Researcher | 13 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 15% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 16 | 21% |
| Unknown | 10 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 27 | 35% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 12% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 9 | 12% |
| Neuroscience | 9 | 12% |
| Engineering | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 4 | 5% |
| Unknown | 17 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
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