Citation

Westendorf DH. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 1989; 15(3): 485-492.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72701.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2527957

Abstract

Reaction time was used to gauge the sensitivity of an eye during its dominant and suppressed phases of binocular rivalry. During dominance, performance was uniformly good in detecting both stimuli that were spatially identical to the suppressed stimulus and those that were different in spatial frequency. When suppressed eyes were tested, performance was poor when the stimulus was different from the dominating stimulus, but even worse when the test stimulus and the dominating stimulus were spatially identical. The results favor the view that suppression operates nonselectively on a monocular visual channel, prior to the point at which dichoptic pattern masking occurs.

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