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Surface organisation influences bistable vision

Surface organisation influences bistable vision
Surface organisation influences bistable vision
A priority for the visual system is to construct 3-dimensional surfaces from visual primitives. Information is combined across individual cues to form a robust representation of the external world. Here, it is shown that surface completion relying on multiple visual cues influences relative dominance during binocular rivalry. The shape of a surface determined by 1 nonrivalrous visual cue (disparity, structure-from-motion) alters the dominance patterns of a rivalrous region of the image whose shape is defined by another cue (perspective, texture). The findings indicate that contextual information promotes the perception of the member of the rivalrous pair consistent with a smooth surface representation. The results extend the current description of binocular rivalry as a hierarchical process by implying that cue combination affects image selection during bistable viewing.
binocular rivalry, visual hierarchy, surface, visual awareness
0096-1523
502-508
Graf, E.W.
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Adams, W.J.
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Graf, E.W.
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Adams, W.J.
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Graf, E.W. and Adams, W.J. (2008) Surface organisation influences bistable vision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34 (2), 502-508. (doi:10.1037/0096-1523.34.2.502). (PMID:18377185)

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Abstract

A priority for the visual system is to construct 3-dimensional surfaces from visual primitives. Information is combined across individual cues to form a robust representation of the external world. Here, it is shown that surface completion relying on multiple visual cues influences relative dominance during binocular rivalry. The shape of a surface determined by 1 nonrivalrous visual cue (disparity, structure-from-motion) alters the dominance patterns of a rivalrous region of the image whose shape is defined by another cue (perspective, texture). The findings indicate that contextual information promotes the perception of the member of the rivalrous pair consistent with a smooth surface representation. The results extend the current description of binocular rivalry as a hierarchical process by implying that cue combination affects image selection during bistable viewing.

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Published date: April 2008
Keywords: binocular rivalry, visual hierarchy, surface, visual awareness
Organisations: Cognition, Psychology

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Local EPrints ID: 48727
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/48727
ISSN: 0096-1523
PURE UUID: b417196d-c4aa-4426-a94a-5a64a2d572b9
ORCID for E.W. Graf: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3162-4233
ORCID for W.J. Adams: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5832-1056

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Date deposited: 10 Oct 2007
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:39

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