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ArticleScientific reports2015

Binocular summation of chance decisions.

Oren Yehezkel, Anna Sterkin, Dov Sagi, Uri Polat

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Article in Scientific reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Effect of interocular differences on binocular visual performance after inducing forward scattering.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2022
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  4. Binocular Enhancement of Multisensory Temporal Perception.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Oren YehezkelGoldschleger Eye Research Institute, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer 52621, Israel.
Anna SterkinGoldschleger Eye Research Institute, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer 52621, Israel.
Dov SagiThe Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Uri PolatGoldschleger Eye Research Institute, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer 52621, Israel.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Seeing with two eyes usually helps one respond faster. Here we show that with ambiguous stimuli, binocular viewing can paradoxically slow down reaction time. This is explained by the observers basing their decision on a noisy neuronal representation within the visual system, with the added noise breaking the symmetry between the two possible interpretations. Binocular integration improves the representation by reducing the noise, increasing ambiguity, and decision time. The neuronal Accumulator (Race) model is applied to quantify the underlying binocular integration. The model accounts for the distributions of reaction times, and predicts suboptimal integration between eyes. We conclude that under ambiguous stimulation neuronal noise within the visual system determines responses.

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Vision, BinocularVisual PerceptionAlgorithmsHumansModels, BiologicalPhotic StimulationReaction Time

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PMID26577900
PMCPMC4649466

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