Eye-specific effects of binocular rivalry in the human lateral geniculate nucleus

John-Dylan Haynes (), Ralf Deichmann and Geraint Rees
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John-Dylan Haynes: Institute of Neurology, University College London
Ralf Deichmann: Institute of Neurology, University College London
Geraint Rees: Institute of Neurology, University College London

Nature, 2005, vol. 438, issue 7067, 496-499

Abstract: Seeing double When our eyes are presented with incompatible images, our conscious perception fluctuates spontaneously between each monocular view. The nature of the resulting ‘binocular rivalry’, and how the brain resolves it, is the subject of a long-standing debate that touches on fundamental aspects of human cognition such as attention and selection. Now a neural signature characteristic for binocular rivalry has been identified, at the very earliest stages of visual processing, in the human lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN). This region of the brain contains cells that respond only to stimulation of one or other eye, and the signals in the LGN closely reflect the perceptual dominance seen during binocular rivalry.

Date: 2005
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