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Kazushi Maruya1, Eunice Yang, Randolph Blake

  • 1Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA.

Psychological Science
|November 23, 2007
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Self-generated actions influence perception. Moving a mouse extended the dominance of a visually competing stimulus, demonstrating how our actions control perceptual conflict, even for unseen stimuli.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • A strong link exists between action and perception.
  • Binocular rivalry is a phenomenon where two competing stimuli vie for perceptual awareness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if self-generated actions influence the dynamics of binocular rivalry.
  • To determine if action-perception linkage affects perceptual conflict resolution.

Main Methods:

  • Participants viewed two dynamic rival stimuli dichoptically.
  • Participants controlled one stimulus's motion using a computer mouse.
  • Rivalry dynamics, including dominance and suppression durations, were measured.

Main Results:

  • When a stimulus's motion aligned with hand movements, its dominance duration increased.

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  • Suppression durations for the aligned stimulus were significantly abbreviated.
  • These effects were independent of participants' awareness of the experimental manipulation.

    • Conclusions:

    • Self-generated actions can modulate the resolution of perceptual conflict during binocular rivalry.
    • The action-perception linkage plays a crucial role in controlling visual awareness.
    • Perceptual conflict can be resolved by actions, even when the controlled object is not consciously perceived.