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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Attention model of binocular rivalry.

Hsin-Hung Li, James Rankin, John Rinzel, Marisa Carrasco, David J Heeger

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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53citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

53 citing papers in PubMed, 93 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. GABAergic Inhibition Gates Perceptual Awareness During Binocular Rivalry.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019
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  2. Orientation-Specific Inhibitory Plasticity in Binocular Rivalry.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2026
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  8. Attentional Eye Selection Affects Perception During Binocular Rivalry.Translational vision science & technology · 2025
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  20. An Accumulating Neural Signal Underlying Binocular Rivalry Dynamics.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Hsin-Hung LiDepartment of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003; hsin.hung.li@nyu.edu david.heeger@nyu.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-3245-2071
James RankinCenter for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003.
John RinzelCenter for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003.
Marisa CarrascoDepartment of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003.
David J HeegerDepartment of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003; hsin.hung.li@nyu.edu david.heeger@nyu.edu.
New York University · USCourant Institute of Mathematical Sciences · USUniversity of Exeter · GB

Funding

Temporal Dynamics of Visual Perception and AttentionR01EY019693 · NEI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI CARRASCO, MARISA · 2010 to 2022
$4.0M
Multiple scales of representation in V1R01EY025673 · NEI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI HEEGER, DAVID J · 2015 to 2017
$1.2M
Training a new generation of computational neuroscientists bridging neurobiologyR90DA043849 · NIDA · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI MA, WEI JI, WANG, XIAO-JING · 2016 to 2020
$926k
Training a new generation of computational neuroscientists bridging neurobiology and cognitionT90DA043219 · NIDA · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI MA, WEI JI, WANG, XIAO-JING · 2016 to 2020
$615k
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY019693NEI NIH HHS R01 EY025673NIDA NIH HHS R90 DA043849NIDA NIH HHS T90 DA043219
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When the corresponding retinal locations in the two eyes are presented with incompatible images, a stable percept gives way to perceptual alternations in which the two images compete for perceptual dominance. As perceptual experience evolves dynamically under constant external inputs, binocular rivalry has been used for studying intrinsic cortical computations and for understanding how the brain regulates competing inputs. Converging behavioral and EEG results have shown that binocular rivalry and attention are intertwined: binocular rivalry ceases when attention is diverted away from the rivalry stimuli. In addition, the competing image in one eye suppresses the target in the other eye through a pattern of gain changes similar to those induced by attention. These results require a revision of the current computational theories of binocular rivalry, in which the role of attention is ignored. Here, we provide a computational model of binocular rivalry. In the model, competition between two images in rivalry is driven by both attentional modulation and mutual inhibition, which have distinct selectivity (feature vs. eye of origin) and dynamics (relatively slow vs. relatively fast). The proposed model explains a wide range of phenomena reported in rivalry, including the three hallmarks: (

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AttentionComputer SimulationVision, BinocularBrainDominance, OcularOcular Physiological PhenomenaPhotic StimulationSensory Receptor CellsVisual Perceptionbinocular rivalrybistable perceptioncomputational modeldynamical systemvisual attention

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PMID28696323
PMCPMC5544261
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