Eye rivalry and object rivalry in the intact and split-brain

Kay L. Ritchie*, Rachel L. Bannerman, David J. Turk, Arash Sahraie

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Abstract

Both the eye of origin and the images themselves have been found to rival during binocular rivalry. We presented traditional binocular rivalry stimuli (face to one eye, house to the other) and Diaz-Caneja stimuli (half of each image to each eye) centrally to both a split-brain participant and a control group. With traditional rivalry stimuli both the split-brain participant and age-matched controls perceived more coherent percepts (synchronised across the hemifields) than non-synchrony, but our split-brain participant perceived more non-synchrony than our controls. For rival stimuli in the Diaz-Caneja presentation condition, object rivalry gave way to eye rivalry with all participants reporting more non-synchrony than coherent percepts. We have shown that splitting the stimuli across the hemifields between the eyes leads to greater eye than object rivalry, but that when traditional rival stimuli are split as the result of the severed corpus callosum, traditional rivalry persists but to a lesser extent than in the intact brain. These results suggest that communication between the early visual areas is not essential for synchrony in traditional rivalry stimuli, and that other routes for interhemispheric interactions such as subcortical connections may mediate rivalry in a traditional binocular rivalry condition. (c) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)102-107
Number of pages6
JournalVision Research
Volume91
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Oct 2013

Research Groups and Themes

  • Cognitive Science

Keywords

  • Binocular rivalry
  • Split-brain
  • BINOCULAR-RIVALRY
  • FACIAL EXPRESSIONS
  • VOLUNTARY CONTROL
  • SUPPRESSION
  • NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
  • PERCEPTION
  • DOMINANCE
  • DYNAMICS
  • EMOTION

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