title: The site of binocular rivalry suppression.
abstract: Two experiments were performed to localize the site of binocular rivalry suppression in relation to the locus of grating adaptation. In one experiment it was found that phenomenal suppression of a high-contrast adaptation grating presented to one eye had no influence on the strength of the threshold-elevation aftereffect measured interocularly. Evidently information about the adaptation grating arrives at the site of the aftereffect (presumably binocular neurons) even during suppression. In a second experiment 60 s of grating adaptation was found to produce a short-term reduction in the predominance of the adapted eye during binocular rivalry. These findings provide converging lines of evidence that suppression occurs at a site in the human visual system after the locus of grating adaptation and, hence, after the striate cortex.
mesh_terms: D000221:Adaptation, Ocular; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D005366:Figural Aftereffect; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D014163:Transfer, Psychology