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Revealing boundary-contour based surface representation through the time course of binocular rivalry.
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PMID:  21496462     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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We varied the surface boundary-contour properties of binocular rivalry (BR) stimuli to measure the rivalry percept as a function of stimulus duration. Experiment 1 compared perception from BR stimuli with monocular boundary contour (MBC) and binocular boundary contour (BBC). We found global dominance is achieved with stimulus duration as short as 30ms for the MBC rivalry stimuli, whereas it takes more than 150ms for the BBC rivalry stimuli. This shows that global dominance can occur rapidly in the absence of a corresponding boundary contour in one half-image. Experiment 2 measured the detection of a monocular Gabor probe located centrally on a 1.5° versus 3.0° MBC rivalry stimulus. We found reliable binocular suppression is observed earlier with the 1.5° MBC stimulus, presumably because of the probe being spatially located nearer to the boundary contour. These findings, in conjunction with those in Su et al. (2011), support the notion that the representation of the dominant surface begins at the MBC and spreads toward the center of the image.
Authors:
Yong R Su; Zijiang J He; Teng Leng Ooi
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Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-4-9
Journal Detail:
Title:  Vision research     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1878-5646     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Apr 
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Created Date:  2011-4-18     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
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Nlm Unique ID:  0417402     Medline TA:  Vision Res     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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Copyright © 2011. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Affiliation:
Department of Basic Sciences, Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Salus University, Elkins Park, PA 19027, USA; Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA.
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