What Type of Awareness Does Binocular Rivalry Assess?
Recent experiments demonstrate that invisible stimulus features can induce binocular rivalry, indicating the phenomenon may be caused by differences in perceptual signal strength rather than conscious selection processes. Here, we clarify binocular rivalry's role in consciousness research by highlighting a critical difference between two distinct types of visual awareness.
Department of Psychology, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: ngiles@g.ucla.edu.
Nathan
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Giles
Department of Psychology, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Brain Research Institute, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Hakwan
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Lau
Department of Psychology, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: odegaard.brian@gmail.com.
Brian
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Odegaard
D001364:Awareness; D003243:Consciousness; D006801:Humans; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D015348:Vision, Binocular; D014796:Visual Perception
Awareness; Binocular rivalry; Blindsight; Consciousness