Effects of consciousness on human brain waves following binocular rivalry
Publication date
1999-03-17
Document type
Forschungsartikel
Author
Organisational unit
Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie, Universität Leipzig
Publisher
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Series or journal
NeuroReport
ISSN
Periodical volume
10
Periodical issue
4
First page
713
Last page
716
Peer-reviewed
✅
Part of the university bibliography
Nein
Language
English
Keyword
Binocular rivalry
Consciousness
Event-related potential (ERP)
Visual perception
Abstract
When the two eyes of an observer are exposed to conflicting stimuli, they enter into binocular rivalry and the two possible percepts will alternate in dominance. We investigated neural activity and its time course following binocular rivalry by measuring human event-related brain potentials to transitions from rivalrous to non-rivalrous stimulation. When these changes did not entail a change in conscious perception they elicited a markedly attenuated N1 component and a delayed and attenuated P3 peak as compared to percept-incompatible changes and non-rivalrous control conditions. These results suggest that in humans binocular rivalry is resolved at latest in extrastriate visual areas. (© 1999 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)
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