title: Neuroimaging: perception at the brain's core.
abstract: Two new functional imaging studies have shown that activity in the lateral geniculate nucleus of the thalamus strongly reflects perceptual dominance during binocular rivalry, raising new questions about how subjective percepts arise in the brain.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Leopold
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maier
mesh_terms: D023882:Dominance, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D004594:Electrophysiology / Q000379:methods; D005829:Geniculate Bodies / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D008954:Models, Biological; D015348:Vision, Binocular / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*