Predominance of ground over ceiling surfaces in binocular rivalry.
Predominance of ground over ceiling surfaces in binocular rivalry.
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DOI：
10.3758/app.71.6.1305
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2009-08
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Braunstein ML
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Ozkan K;Braunstein ML
The superiority of ground surfaces over ceiling surfaces in determining the representation of the visual world, demonstrated in several studies of visual perception and visual search, has been attributed to a preference for top-away projections resulting from ecological constraints. Recent research on binocular rivalry indicates that ecological constraints affect predominance relations. The present study considered whether there is a difference in predominance between ground and ceiling surfaces. In the first experiment, we examined whether a ground surface would dominate a ceiling surface when one surface was presented to each eye. In the second experiment, we used an eye-swapping paradigm to determine whether a ground surface would come to dominance faster than a ceiling surface when presented to the suppressed eye. The eye-swapping paradigm was used again in the third experiment, but the ground and ceiling planes were replaced with frontal planes with similar variations in texture density. The results of the these experiments indicate that ground surfaces are predominant over ceiling surfaces, with this predominance affecting both the dominance and suppression phases of binocular rivalry. This superiority of ground planes is independent of image properties such as the increase or decrease in texture density from the lower half to the upper half of the images.
