Ngo, Trung T. and Liu, Guang B. and Tilley, Andrew J. and Pettigrew, John D. and Miller, Steven M. (2008) The changing face of perceptual rivalry. Brain Research Bulletin, 75 (5). pp. 610-618. ISSN 0361-9230
Abstract
Functional brain-imaging studies of house-face binocular rivalry and Rubin's vase-faces illusion have consistently reported perception-dependent activity in the right fusiform gyrus. Here we use Rubin's illusion and report that activation of the left hemisphere by caloric vestibular stimulation increases the predominance of the faces percept in a substantial number of test subjects. While partially supporting the brain-imaging lateralization reports, our findings also challenge these studies by suggesting that neural mechanisms of Rubin's illusion cannot be limited to extrastriate perception-dependent processing. In accordance with our previously proposed interhemispheric switch model, the present findings support the notion that perceptual rivalry engages high-level cortical structures that mediate unihemisphere attentional selection.
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