scholarly journals Surface Area of Early Visual Cortex Predicts Individual Speed of Traveling Waves During Binocular Rivalry

2013 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 1499-1508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erhan Genç ◽  
Johanna Bergmann ◽  
Wolf Singer ◽  
Axel Kohler
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Lunghi

In this research binocular rivalry is used as a tool to investigate different aspects of visual and multisensory perception. Several experiments presented here demonstrated that touch specifically interacts with vision during binocular rivalry and that the interaction likely occurs at early stages of visual processing, probably V1 or V2. Another line of research also presented here demonstrated that human adult visual cortex retains an unexpected high degree of experience-dependent plasticity by showing that a brief period of monocular deprivation produced important perceptual consequences on the dynamics of binocular rivalry, reflecting a homeostatic plasticity. In summary, this work shows that binocular rivalry is a powerful tool to investigate different aspects of visual perception and can be used to reveal unexpected properties of early visual cortex.


2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang-Hun Lee ◽  
Randolph Blake ◽  
David J Heeger

Nature ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 379 (6565) ◽  
pp. 549-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Leopold ◽  
Nikos K. Logothetis

2016 ◽  
Vol 113 (30) ◽  
pp. 8408-8413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinyou Zou ◽  
Sheng He ◽  
Peng Zhang

Binocular rivalry arises when incompatible images are presented to the two eyes. If the two eyes’ conflicting features are invisible, leading to identical perceptual interpretations, does rivalry competition still occur? Here we investigated whether binocular rivalry can be induced from conflicting but invisible spatial patterns. A chromatic grating counterphase flickering at 30 Hz appeared uniform, but produced significant tilt aftereffect and orientation-selective adaptation. The invisible pattern also generated significant BOLD activities in the early visual cortex, with minimal response in the parietal and frontal cortical areas. Compared with perceptually matched uniform stimuli, a monocularly presented invisible chromatic grating enhanced the rivalry competition with a low-contrast visible grating presented to the other eye. Furthermore, switching from a uniform field to a perceptually matched invisible chromatic grating produced interocular suppression at approximately 200 ms after onset of the invisible grating. Experiments using briefly presented monocular probes revealed evidence for sustained rivalry competition between two invisible gratings during continuous dichoptic presentations. These findings indicate that even without visible interocular conflict, and with minimal engagement of frontoparietal cortex and consciousness related top-down feedback, perceptually identical patterns with invisible conflict features produce rivalry competition in the early visual cortex.


2014 ◽  
Vol 220 (2) ◽  
pp. 1229-1236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torbjørn Elvsåshagen ◽  
Torgeir Moberget ◽  
Erlend Bøen ◽  
Per K. Hol ◽  
Ulrik F. Malt ◽  
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