What Type of Awareness Does Binocular Rivalry Assess?
Trends in Cognitive Sciences October 2016 Nathan Giles, Hakwan Lau, Brian Odegaard
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.
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2016.08.010 (opens in new tab)
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Awareness
Binocular rivalry
Blindsight
Consciousness