Visual sensitivity underlying changes in visual consciousness.
Current biology : CB August 10, 2010 David Alais, John Cass, Robert P O'Shea et al.
When viewing a different stimulus with each eye, we experience the remarkable phenomenon of binocular rivalry: alternations in consciousness between the stimuli [1, 2]. According to a popular theory first proposed in 1901, neurons encoding the two stimuli engage in reciprocal inhibition [3-8] so that those processing one stimulus inhibit those processing the other, yielding consciousness of one...