What Type of Awareness Does Binocular Rivalry Assess?

Nathan Giles; Hakwan Lau; Brian Odegaard

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2016.08.010

What Type of Awareness Does Binocular Rivalry Assess?

Nathan Giles, Hakwan Lau, Brian Odegaard

University of California at Los Angeles

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	719-720
Number of pages	2
Journal	Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Volume	20
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2016.08.010
State	Published - 1 Oct 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Awareness
Binocular rivalry
Blindsight
Consciousness

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