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Nov 2004
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ISBN
026201212X
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| 392 pp.
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| 101 illus.
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| Binocular Rivalry |
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David Alais
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Randolph Blake
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Researchers today in neuroscience and cognitive psychology increasingly turn their attention to binocular rivalry and other forms of perceptual ambiguity or bistability. The study of fluctuations in visual perception in the face of unchanging visual input offers a means for understanding the link between neural events and visual events, including visual awareness. Some neuroscientists believe that binocular rivalry reveals a fundamental aspect of human cognition and provides a way to isolate and study brain areas involved in attention and selection. The eighteen essays collected in <i>Binocular Rivalry</i> present the most recent theoretical and empirical work on this key topic by leading researchers in the field.<br />
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After the opening chapter's overview of the major characteristics of binocular rivalry in their historical contexts, the contributors consider topics ranging from the basic phenomenon of perceptual ambiguity to brain models and neural networks. The essays illustrate the potential power of the study of perceptual ambiguity as a tool for learning about the neural concomitants of visual awareness, or, as they have been called, the "neural correlates of consciousness."
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| Table of Contents |
| | Foreword
by Robert Fox |
| | Preface |
| 1 | | Landmarks in the History of Binocular Rivalry
by Randolph Blake |
| 2 | | Ambiguities and Rivalries in the History of Binocular Vision
by Nicholas J. Wade |
| 3 | | The Nature and Depth of Binocular Rivalry Suppression
by Alan W. Freeman, Vincent A. Nguyen, and David Alais |
| 4 | | Investigations of the Neural Basis of Binocular rivalry
by Frank Tong |
| 5 | | Parallel Pathways and Temporal Dynamics in Binocular Rivalry
by Sheng He, Thomas Carlson, and Xiangchuan Chen |
| 6 | | Human Development of Binocular Rivalry
by Ilona Kovacs and Michal Eisenberg |
| 7 | | Surface Representation and Attention Modulation
by Teng Leng Ooi and Zijiang J. He |
| 8 | | Dynamics of Perceptual Bistability: Plaids and
Binocular Rivalry Compared
by Nava Rubin and Jean-Michel Hupe |
| 9 | | Interocular Grouping in Binocular Rivalry: Basic
Attributes and Combinations
by Thomas V. Papathomas, Ilona Kovacs, and Tiffany Conway |
| 10 | | Binocular Rivalry and the Perception of Depth
by Ian P. Howard |
| 11 | | From Contour to Object-Face Rivalry: Multiple Neural
Mechanisms Resolve Perceptual Ambiguity
by Timothy J. Andrews, Frank Sengpiel, and Colin Blakemore |
| 12 | | Responses of Single Neurons in the Human Brain During
Flash Suppression
by Gabriel Kreiman, Itzhak Fried, and Christo Koch |
| 13 | | Bionocular Rivalry and the Illusion of Monocular Vision
by David A. Leopold, Alexander Maier, Melanie Wilke, and
Nikos K. Logothetis |
| 14 | | The Functional Role of Oscillatory Neuronal
Synchronization for Perceptual Organization and Selection
by Pascal Fries, Miguel Castelo-Branco, Andreas K. Engel,
and Wolf Singer |
| 15 | | Perceptual Rivalry as an Ultradian Oscillation
by J. D. Pettigrew and O. L. Carter |
| 16 | | Binocular Rivalry in the Divided Brain
by Robert P. O'Shea and Paul M. Corballis |
| 17 | | Rivalry and Perceptual Oscillations: A Dynamical Synthesis
by Hugh R. Wilson |
| 18 | | A Neural Network Model of Top-Down Rivalry
by D. P. Crewther, R. Jones, J. Munro, T. Price,
S. Puilis, and S. Crewther |
| | Contributors |
| | Name Index |
| | Subject Index |
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