When the brain changes its mind: Interocular grouping during binocular rivalry
When the brain changes its mind: Interocular grouping during binocular rivalry
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.93.26.15508
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发表时间：
1996-12-24
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Feher, A
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作者：
Kovacs, I;Papathomas, TV;Feher, A
双眼竞争的普遍观点认为，它是由单眼神经元之间的相互抑制介导的双眼之间的竞争。这种观点主要是由于传统的竞争诱导刺激的性质，这是对不同的图像与连贯模式内的每只眼睛的图像。是眼睛的起源或一致性的模式，决定知觉交替之间的一致性知觉双眼竞争？我们打破了传统刺激的连贯性，取而代之的是相互竞争的图像的互补拼凑。大脑能否将来自不同眼睛的拼凑碎片进行解读，从而获得连贯的感知？我们发现，模式的连贯性本身可以驱动感知的变化，和拼凑重组成连贯的形式，大多数观察者。这一结果与最近的神经生理学和心理物理学证据相一致，这些证据表明双眼竞争不仅仅是眼睛竞争。
The prevalent view of binocular rivalry holds that it is a competition between the two eyes mediated by reciprocal inhibition among monocular neurons. This view is largely due to the nature of conventional rivalry-inducing stimuli, which are pairs of dissimilar images with coherent patterns within each eye's image. Is it the eye of origin or the coherency of patterns that determines perceptual alternations between coherent percepts in binocular rivalry? We break the coherency of conventional stimuli and replace them by complementary patchworks of intermingled rivalrous images. Can the brain unscramble the pieces of the patchwork arriving from different eyes to obtain coherent percepts? We find that pattern coherency in itself can drive perceptual alternations, and the patchworks are reassembled into coherent forms by most observers. This result is in agreement with recent neurophysiological and psychophysical evidence demonstrating that there is more to binocular rivalry than mere eye competition.