Can attention selectively bias bistable perception? Differences between binocular rivalry and ambiguous figures.

Abstract:

:It is debated whether different forms of bistable perception result from common or separate neural mechanisms. Binocular rivalry involves perceptual alternations between competing monocular images, whereas ambiguous figures such as the Necker cube lead to alternations between two possible pictorial interpretations. Previous studies have shown that observers can voluntarily control the alternation rate of both rivalry and Necker cube reversal, perhaps suggesting that bistable perception results from a common mechanism of top-down selection. However, according to the biased competition model of selective attention, attention should be able to enhance the attended percept and suppress the unattended percept. Here, we investigated selective attentional modulation of dominance durations in bistable perception. Observers consistently showed much weaker selective attentional control for rivalry than for Necker cube reversal, even for rivalry displays that maximized the opportunities for feature-, object-, or space-based attentional selection. In contrast, nonselective control of alternation rate was comparably strong for both forms of bistable perception and corresponded poorly with estimates of selective attentional control. Our results support the notion that binocular rivalry involves a more automatic, stimulus-driven form of visual competition than Necker cube reversal, and as a consequence, is less easily biased by selective attention.

journal_name

J Vis

journal_title

Journal of vision

authors

Meng M,Tong F

doi

10.1167/4.7.2

keywords:

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-07-01 00:00:00

pages

539-51

issue

7

issn

1534-7362

pii

4/7/2

journal_volume

4

pub_type

杂志文章
  • Color constancy supports cross-illumination color selection.

    abstract::We rely on color to select objects as the targets of our actions (e.g., the freshest fish, the ripest fruit). To be useful for selection, color must provide accurate guidance about object identity across changes in illumination. Although the visual system partially stabilizes object color appearance across illuminatio...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/15.6.13

    authors: Radonjić A,Cottaris NP,Brainard DH

    更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00

  • Tuning for temporal interval in human apparent motion detection.

    abstract::Detection of apparent motion in random dot patterns requires correlation across time and space. It has been difficult to study the temporal requirements for the correlation step because motion detection also depends on temporal filtering preceding correlation and on integration at the next levels. To specifically stud...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/7.1.2

    authors: Bours RJ,Stuur S,Lankheet MJ

    更新日期:2007-01-08 00:00:00

  • The extra-retinal motion aftereffect.

    abstract::Repetitive eye movements are known to produce motion aftereffect (MAE) when made to track a moving stimulus. Explanations typically centre on the retinal motion created in the peripheral visual field by the eye movement. This retinal motion is thought to induce perceived motion in the central test, either through the ...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/3.11.11

    authors: Freeman TC,Sumnall JH,Snowden RJ

    更新日期:2003-12-05 00:00:00

  • The effect of object-centered instructions in Cartesian and polar coordinates on saccade vector.

    abstract::Express saccades (ES) are the most reflexive saccadic eye movements, with very short reaction times of 70-110 ms. It is likely that ES have the shortest saccade reaction times (SRTs) possible given the known physiological and anatomical delays present in sensory and motor systems. Nevertheless, it has been demonstrate...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/17.3.2

    authors: Edelman JA,Mieses AM,Konnova K,Shiu D

    更新日期:2017-03-01 00:00:00

  • Bistable Gestalts reduce activity in the whole of V1, not just the retinotopically predicted parts.

    abstract::Activity in the primary visual cortex reduces when certain stimuli can be perceptually organized as a unified Gestalt. This reduction could offer important insights into the nature of feedback computations within the human visual system; however, the properties of this response reduction have not yet been investigated...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/12.11.12

    authors: de-Wit LH,Kubilius J,Wagemans J,Op de Beeck HP

    更新日期:2012-10-22 00:00:00

  • Induction from a below-threshold chromatic pattern.

    abstract::Patterned backgrounds can induce large shifts in color appearance, even with patterns of only 10% S-cone contrast (S. K. Shevell & P. Monnier, 2005). The present study tested whether a background pattern could induce color shifts even at a below-threshold contrast. In the first experiment, S-cone contrast threshold fo...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/8.12.7

    authors: Monnier P,Shevell SK

    更新日期:2008-09-23 00:00:00

  • Contributions of gaze-centered and object-centered coding in a double-step saccade task.

    abstract::The position of a saccade target can be encoded in gaze-centered coordinates, that is, relative to the current gaze position, or in object-centered coordinates, that is, relative to an object in the environment. We tested the role of gaze-centered and object-centered coding in a double-step saccade task involving the ...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/16.14.12

    authors: de Brouwer AJ,Medendorp WP,Smeets JB

    更新日期:2016-11-01 00:00:00

  • How we perceive the trajectory of an approaching object.

    abstract::Various equations that describe how observers could recover the trajectory of an approaching object have been put forward. Many are relatively complex formulations that recover the veridical trajectory by scaling retinal cues, such as looming and changing disparity. However, these equations do not seem to describe hum...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/12.3.9

    authors: Duke PA,Rushton SK

    更新日期:2012-03-08 00:00:00

  • Precision of sustained fixation in trained and untrained observers.

    abstract::During visual fixation, microscopic eye movements shift the image on the retina over a large number of photoreceptors. Although these movements have been investigated for almost a century, the amount of retinal image motion they create remains unclear. Currently available estimates rely on assumptions about the probab...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/12.6.31

    authors: Cherici C,Kuang X,Poletti M,Rucci M

    更新日期:2012-06-22 00:00:00

  • Categorical grouping is not required for guided conjunction search.

    abstract::Knowledge of target features can guide attention in many conjunction searches in a top-down manner. For example, in search of a red vertical line among blue vertical and red horizontal lines, observers can guide attention toward all red items and all vertical items. In typical conjunction searches, distractors often f...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/jov.20.8.30

    authors: Utochkin IS,Khvostov VA,Wolfe JM

    更新日期:2020-08-03 00:00:00

  • Complexity and specificity of experimentally-induced expectations in motion perception.

    abstract::Our perceptions are fundamentally altered by our expectations, i.e., priors about the world. In previous statistical learning experiments (Chalk, Seitz, & Seriès, 2010), we investigated how such priors are formed by presenting subjects with white low contrast moving dots on a blank screen and using a bimodal distribut...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/13.4.8

    authors: Gekas N,Chalk M,Seitz AR,Seriès P

    更新日期:2013-03-13 00:00:00

  • The distribution of visual objects on the retina: connecting eye movements and cone distributions.

    abstract::Experimental data on the accuracy and frequency of saccades are incorporated into a model of the visual world and eye movements to determine the spatial distribution of visual objects on the retina. Visual scenes are represented as sequences of discrete small objects whose positions are initially uniformly distributed...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/3.11.21

    authors: Lewis A,Garcia R,Zhaoping L

    更新日期:2003-12-29 00:00:00

  • Insufficient compensation for self-motion during perception of object speed: The vestibular Aubert-Fleischl phenomenon.

    abstract::To estimate object speed with respect to the self, retinal signals must be summed with extraretinal signals that encode the speed of eye and head movement. Prior work has shown that differences in perceptual estimates of object speed based on retinal and oculomotor signals lead to biased percepts such as the Aubert-Fl...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/18.13.9

    authors: Garzorz IT,Freeman TCA,Ernst MO,MacNeilage PR

    更新日期:2018-12-03 00:00:00

  • Orientation-tuned suppression in binocular rivalry reveals general and specific components of rivalry suppression.

    abstract::During binocular rivalry (BR), conflicting monocular images are alternately suppressed from awareness. During suppression of an image, contrast sensitivity for probes is reduced by approximately 0.3-0.5 log units relative to when the image is in perceptual dominance. Previous studies on rivalry suppression have led to...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/9.11.17

    authors: Stuit SM,Cass J,Paffen CL,Alais D

    更新日期:2009-10-16 00:00:00

  • Nulling the motion aftereffect with dynamic random-dot stimuli: limitations and implications.

    abstract::We used biased random-dot dynamic test stimuli to measure the strength of the motion aftereffect (MAE) to evaluate the usefulness of this technique as a measure of motion adaptation strength. The stimuli consisted of noise dots whose individual directions were random and of signal dots moving in a unique direction. Al...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/2.4.3

    authors: Castet E,Keeble DR,Verstraten FA

    更新日期:2002-01-01 00:00:00

  • Categorical facilitation with equally discriminable colors.

    abstract::This study investigates the impact of language on color perception. By categorical facilitation, we refer to an aspect of categorical perception, in which the linguistic distinction between categories affects color discrimination beyond the low-level, sensory sensitivity to color differences. According to this idea, d...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/15.8.22

    authors: Witzel C,Gegenfurtner KR

    更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00

  • Updating visual working memory in the change detection paradigm.

    abstract::An updating version of a visual change detection paradigm was used to investigate the behavioral outcomes and event-related potential (ERP) correlates of visual working memory updating. In each trial, participants were either presented with a memory array followed by a test probe, or with two successive memory arrays....

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/15.9.18

    authors: Kessler Y,Rac-Lubashevsky R,Lichtstein C,Markus H,Simchon A,Moscovitch M

    更新日期:2015-01-01 00:00:00

  • The impact of predictive cues and visual working memory on dynamic oculomotor selection.

    abstract::Strategic use of advanced information about search display properties can benefit covert attentional selection. However, little work has investigated this benefit on overt selection. The present study examined how cued information impacts oculomotor selection over time and the role played by individual differences in ...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/14.3.27

    authors: Weaver MD,Paoletti D,van Zoest W

    更新日期:2014-03-24 00:00:00

  • Motion processing at low light levels: Differential effects on the perception of specific motion types.

    abstract::While many aspects of human vision at low light levels have been studied in great detail, motion perception has rarely been investigated so far. Here we address differential effects of light level on the perception of coherent motion, heading from radial flow, and biological motion. We determined detection thresholds ...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/8.3.14

    authors: Billino J,Bremmer F,Gegenfurtner KR

    更新日期:2008-03-18 00:00:00

  • Deep neural networks capture texture sensitivity in V2.

    abstract::Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained on visual objects have shown intriguing ability to predict some response properties of visual cortical neurons. However, the factors (e.g., if the model is trained or not, receptive field size) and computations (e.g., convolution, rectification, pooling, normalization)...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/jov.20.7.21

    authors: Laskar MNU,Sanchez Giraldo LG,Schwartz O

    更新日期:2020-07-01 00:00:00

  • Eye movement statistics in humans are consistent with an optimal search strategy.

    abstract::Most models of visual search are based on the intuition that humans choose fixation locations containing features that best match the features of the target. The optimal version of this feature-based strategy is what we term "maximum a posteriori (MAP) search." Alternatively, humans could choose fixations that maximiz...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/8.3.4

    authors: Najemnik J,Geisler WS

    更新日期:2008-03-07 00:00:00

  • Surround facilitation for rapid motion perception.

    abstract::Because we live in a dynamic environment with moving eyes and body, our retinas are often stimulated by new scenes that appear suddenly and are only briefly available. How the visual system successfully extracts information from such challenging stimulation is not yet understood. For some stimuli, like photos of natur...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/12.10.3

    authors: Linares D,Motoyoshi I,Nishida S

    更新日期:2012-09-06 00:00:00

  • Optimal stimulus encoders for natural tasks.

    abstract::Determining the features of natural stimuli that are most useful for specific natural tasks is critical for understanding perceptual systems. A new approach is described that involves finding the optimal encoder for the natural task of interest, given a relatively small population of noisy "neurons" between the encode...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/9.13.17

    authors: Geisler WS,Najemnik J,Ing AD

    更新日期:2009-12-16 00:00:00

  • Why do people appear not to extrapolate trajectories during multiple object tracking? A computational investigation.

    abstract::Intuitively, extrapolating object trajectories should make visual tracking more accurate. This has proven to be true in many contexts that involve tracking a single item. But surprisingly, when tracking multiple identical items in what is known as "multiple object tracking," observers often appear to ignore direction ...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/14.12.12

    authors: Zhong SH,Ma Z,Wilson C,Liu Y,Flombaum JI

    更新日期:2014-10-13 00:00:00

  • The impact of stimulus complexity and frequency swapping on stabilization of binocular rivalry.

    abstract::Binocular rivalry occurs when an image is presented to one eye while at the same time another, incongruent, image is presented to the other eye in the corresponding retinotopic location and conscious perception alternates spontaneously between the two monocular views. If a short blank period is inserted between interm...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/11.2.6

    authors: Sandberg K,Bahrami B,Lindeløv JK,Overgaard M,Rees G

    更新日期:2011-02-08 00:00:00

  • Activity in visual area V4 correlates with surface perception.

    abstract::The neural mechanisms responsible for unifying noncontiguous regions of a visual image into a percept of a single surface remain largely unknown. To investigate these mechanisms, we used a novel stimulus in which local luminance was the only cue for surface segmentation. Subjects viewed an array of small adjoining ele...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/8.7.28

    authors: Bouvier SE,Cardinal KS,Engel SA

    更新日期:2008-11-07 00:00:00

  • Salience of the lambs: a test of the saliency map hypothesis with pictures of emotive objects.

    abstract::Humans have an ability to rapidly detect emotive stimuli. However, many emotional objects in a scene are also highly visually salient, which raises the question of how dependent the effects of emotionality are on visual saliency and whether the presence of an emotional object changes the power of a more visually salie...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/12.1.22

    authors: Humphrey K,Underwood G,Lambert T

    更新日期:2012-01-25 00:00:00

  • Interocular suppression patterns in binocularly abnormal observers using luminance- and contrast-modulated noise stimuli.

    abstract::In binocular viewing, images presented to the amblyopic eye are suppressed in the cortex to prevent confusion or diplopia. The present study measures depth and extent of interocular suppression across the central circular 24° visual field in observers with strabismus and microstrabismus. Visual stimuli were concentric...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/16.10.20

    authors: Chima AS,Formankiewicz MA,Waugh SJ

    更新日期:2016-08-01 00:00:00

  • Modeling guidance and recognition in categorical search: bridging human and computer object detection.

    abstract::Search is commonly described as a repeating cycle of guidance to target-like objects, followed by the recognition of these objects as targets or distractors. Are these indeed separate processes using different visual features? We addressed this question by comparing observer behavior to that of support vector machine ...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/13.3.30

    authors: Zelinsky GJ,Peng Y,Berg AC,Samaras D

    更新日期:2013-10-08 00:00:00

  • Learning diagnostic features: the delta rule does Bubbles.

    abstract::It has been shown (Murray & Gold, 2004a) that the Bubbles paradigm for studying human perceptual identification can be formally analyzed and compared to reverse correlation methods when the underlying identification model is conceived as a linear amplifier (LAM). However the usefulness of a LAM for characterizing huma...

    journal_title:Journal of vision

    pub_type: 杂志文章

    doi:10.1167/13.8.17

    authors: Hannagan T,Grainger J

    更新日期:2013-07-17 00:00:00