ReviewAttention, perception & psychophysics2016
Does visual attention drive the dynamics of bistable perception?
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- A novel image-based neuronal network model framework for understanding visual multistability and neurological disorders.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2026Article
- Accentuation and Attention: From Perceptual Organization to Consciousness.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- The hidden structure of consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- History-dependent changes to distribution of dominance phases in multistable perception.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- New insights into binocular rivalry from the reconstruction of evolving percepts using model network dynamics.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2023Article
- Change not State: Perceptual coupling in multistable displays reflects transient bias induced by perceptual change.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Article
- Exercise alone impacts short-term adult visual neuroplasticity in a monocular deprivation paradigm.Journal of vision · 2021Article
- The Certainty of Ambiguity in Visual Neural Representations.Annual review of vision science · 2021Review
- Ring models of binocular rivalry and fusion.Journal of computational neuroscience · 2020Article
- Novel procedure for generating continuous flash suppression: Seurat meets Mondrian.Journal of vision · 2019Article
- Dichoptic vision in the absence of attention: neither fusion nor rivalry.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Cholinergic Potentiation Alters Perceptual Eye Dominance Plasticity Induced by a Few Hours of Monocular Patching in Adults.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
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- A hierarchical stochastic model for bistable perception.PLoS computational biology · 2017Article
- Attention model of binocular rivalry.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Visual perception affected by motivation and alertness controlled by a noninvasive brain-computer interface.PloS one · 2017Article
- Perceptual training profoundly alters binocular rivalry through both sensory and attentional enhancements.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
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Abstract
How does attention interact with incoming sensory information to determine what we perceive? One domain in which this question has received serious consideration is that of bistable perception: a captivating class of phenomena that involves fluctuating visual experience in the face of physically unchanging sensory input. Here, some investigations have yielded support for the idea that attention alone determines what is seen, while others have implicated entirely attention-independent processes in driving alternations during bistable perception. We review the body of literature addressing this divide and conclude that in fact both sides are correct-depending on the form of bistable perception being considered. Converging evidence suggests that visual attention is required for alternations in the type of bistable perception called binocular rivalry, while alternations during other types of bistable perception appear to continue without requiring attention. We discuss some implications of this differential effect of attention for our understanding of the mechanisms underlying bistable perception, and examine how these mechanisms operate during our everyday visual experiences.
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