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Psychophysical evidence for area V2 involvement in the reduction of subjective contour tilt aftereffects by binocular rivalry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2009

Rick van der Zwan  and
Peter Wenderoth
Rick van der Zwan
Affiliation:
University of Sydney, 2006, Australia
Peter Wenderoth
Affiliation:
University of Sydney, 2006, Australia
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Abstract

Previous research suggests binocular rivalry disrupts extrastriate, but not striate processes, although the locus along the visual pathway at which such disruption first occurs is uncertain. It has been argued that subjective contours arise via a two-stage process in which end-stopped cells feed into orientation-sensitive neurones in V2, and that orientation aftereffects induced with subjective contours are the product of mechanisms similar to those giving rise to real contour aftereffects. If binocular rivalry disrupts the acquisition of subjective contour aftereffects, then it follows from this model that rivalry disrupts processing in V2. Experiments reported here confirm this and provide evidence which suggests binocular rivalry arises through interactions between binocular neurones, rather than via some type of specialized binocular rivalry mechanism.

Keywords

Area V2Extrastriate cortexAftereffectBinocular rivalryEnd-stopped cell
Type
Research Articles
Information
Visual Neuroscience , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , July 1994 , pp. 823 - 830
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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