ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2014
Can binocular rivalry reveal neural correlates of consciousness?
Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
49 citing papers in PubMed.
- Continuous flash suppression responses in mouse visual cortex: Stimulus laterality and anesthesia effects.iScience · 2026Article
- Mesoscale cortical mechanisms of perceptual conflict resolution in binocular rivalry.Nature human behaviour · 2026Article
- Differential effects of attention and contrast on transition appearance during binocular rivalry.Journal of vision · 2026Article
- Illuminating consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- EEG Decoding of Conscious versus Unconscious Representations during Binocular Rivalry.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2025Article
- The complexity of human subjective experience during binocular rivalry.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2025Article
- Review
- Bistable perception, precision and neuromodulation.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- INs and OUTs of faces in consciousness: a study of the temporal evolution of consciousness of faces during binocular rivalry.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Spontaneous Necker-cube reversals may not be that spontaneous.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Towards causal mechanisms of consciousness through focused transcranial brain stimulation.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2023Review
- Neural Dynamics during Binocular Rivalry: Indications from Human Lateral Geniculate Nucleus.eNeuro · 2023Article
- Intrinsic brain dynamics in the Default Mode Network predict involuntary fluctuations of visual awareness.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Theories of consciousness.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2022Review
- A nasal visual field advantage in interocular competition.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The nature of blindsight: implications for current theories of consciousness.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2022Review
- On the Art of Binocular Rivalry.i-Perception · 2021Article
- Stimulus dependence of interocular suppression.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The dual nature of the BOLD signal: Responses in visual area hMT+ reflect both input properties and perceptual decision.Human brain mapping · 2021Article
- Disentangling perceptual awareness from nonconscious processing in rhesus monkeys (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
This essay critically examines the extent to which binocular rivalry can provide important clues about the neural correlates of conscious visual perception. Our ideas are presented within the framework of four questions about the use of rivalry for this purpose: (i) what constitutes an adequate comparison condition for gauging rivalry's impact on awareness, (ii) how can one distinguish abolished awareness from inattention, (iii) when one obtains unequivocal evidence for a causal link between a fluctuating measure of neural activity and fluctuating perceptual states during rivalry, will it generalize to other stimulus conditions and perceptual phenomena and (iv) does such evidence necessarily indicate that this neural activity constitutes a neural correlate of consciousness? While arriving at sceptical answers to these four questions, the essay nonetheless offers some ideas about how a more nuanced utilization of binocular rivalry may still provide fundamental insights about neural dynamics, and glimpses of at least some of the ingredients comprising neural correlates of consciousness, including those involved in perceptual decision-making.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.