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John Benjamins Publishing, Advances in Consciousness Research, p. 211-252, 2013

DOI: 10.1075/aicr.90.09ngo

John Benjamins Publishing, Advances in Consciousness Research, p. 77-108, 2013

DOI: 10.1075/aicr.90.04wad

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Early views on binocular rivalry

Journal article published in 2013 by Nicholas J. Wade, Wendy N. Barsdell, Trung T. Ngo ORCID, Phillip C. F. Law, Steven M. Miller
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Abstract

Mechanistic understanding of binocular rivalry (BR) has drawn upon psychophysical, electrophysiological and brain-imaging studies. The first brain stimulation approach occurred in the late 1990s and assessed a new mechanistic proposal, the interhemispheric switch (IHS) hypothesis. Both caloric vestibular stimulation (CVS) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) modulated rivalry predominance when applied unilaterally. We describe the IHS model, its genesis and the brain stimulation evidence on which it rests. We also review more recent CVS and TMS rivalry studies, and discuss the findings of slow BR in bipolar disorder (BD) and genetic contribution to individual variation in BR rate. Finally, we describe a recent Drosophila model that can shed light on genetic, molecular and neurophysiological aspects of both BR and BD.