Abstract
During binocular rivalry, physical stimulation is dissociated from conscious visual awareness. Human brain imaging reveals a tight linkage between the neural events in human primary visual cortex (V1) and the dynamics of perceptual waves during transitions in dominance during binocular rivalry. Here, we report results from experiments in which observers' attention was diverted from the rival stimuli, implying that: competition between two rival stimuli involves neural circuits in V1, and attention is crucial for the consequences of this neural competition to advance to higher visual areas and promote perceptual waves.
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We thank N. Logothetis, C. Koch, R. Marois, M. Landy, F. Tong, M. Carrasco, T. Movshon and the late F. Crick for comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript. This work was supported by grants from the US National Institutes of Health to D.J.H. (R01-EY12741 and R01-EY16752) and to R.B. (R03-EY14437 and R01-EY13356), and a grant from the Brain Research Center of 21st Century Frontier Research Program funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Republic of Korea, to S.H.L. (M103KV010018-07K2201-01810). Some of these data were acquired while D.J.H. and S.H.L. were at Stanford University and while R.B. was a visiting scholar at New York University.
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Lee, SH., Blake, R. & Heeger, D. Hierarchy of cortical responses underlying binocular rivalry. Nat Neurosci 10, 1048–1054 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1939
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