Binocural Rivalry

When probing incompatibleimages to the eyes results in conscious perception appears. This phenomenon is called binocural rivalry (Alais and Melcher, 2006). the complexity of a cue is a significant effect in the process of rivalry while it makes the depth and a rivalry process that showed cohesion (Alais and Melcher, 2006). when complexity of real world images are paired with gratings with a deep attenuation coherence is also complex. When non complex images are used there is an effect of lower processing.When both eyes receive images that are globel it results in a highly coherent state.

He and Davis (2001) suggest that inserted information in the blind spot has a contribution to the process of binocular rivalry.

Alpers and Gerdes (2007) investigated binocular rivalry in order to assess if emotionally important pictures show an advantage over neutral pictures when the were visually proccessed. Visual perception was improved by preferential processing due to binocular rivalry. In addition it is suggested that emotional pictures are not only the cause of different characteristics of these pictures.

Hancock and Andrews (2007) wanted to see if and how attention is related in the selection and perpetuation of perceptual dominance occuring during binocular rivalry. Participants had to fixate on a dark spot that was centrally in view during viewing a plaid stimulus that was given to the two eyes. In one occasion the plaid rotated either clockwise or counterclockwise whereafter it returned to the original locus. During a dalay, the grating that was presented was removed from the image in one eye and the grating that was uncued to the other eye, resulting in binocular rivalry. It was found that involuntary cuing resulted in the fact that the stimulus was easier perceived.