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  • 1Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany. nikos.logothetis@tuebingen.mpg.de

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
|December 17, 1998
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Binocular rivalry studies reveal that neural activity correlates with perception, particularly in temporal lobe areas. Conscious visual perception may involve a subset of stimulus-selective neurons, challenging previous theories of interocular competition.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Ambiguous figures are crucial for understanding the neural basis of visual awareness.
  • Binocular rivalry allows dissociation of neural responses underlying perception from sensory representations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the neural basis of visual awareness using binocular rivalry in monkeys.
  • To determine how neural activity in different visual areas correlates with alternating perceptions.

Main Methods:

  • Monkeys were exposed to binocular rivalry stimuli.
  • Neural responses in various visual areas were recorded.
  • Monkeys reported their perceptual changes by pulling levers.

Main Results:

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  • Perception-related neural modulations varied across visual areas.
  • Binocular cells were predominantly affected by suppression, increasing in higher visual areas.
  • Strongest neural-perceptual correlations were found in temporal lobe visual areas.
  • Many neurons in early visual areas remained active during perceptual suppression.

Conclusions:

  • Conscious visual perception might be mediated by a subset of stimulus-selective neurons.
  • Binocular rivalry is likely due to competition between central neural representations, not interocular channels.
  • Rivalry mechanisms may be similar to those in general multistable perception.