Similar but separate systems underlie perceptual bistability in vision and audition.

ABSTRACT: The dynamics of perceptual bistability, the phenomenon in which perception switches between different interpretations of an unchanging stimulus, are characterised by very similar properties across a wide range of qualitatively different paradigms. This suggests that perceptual switching may be triggered by some common source. However, it is also possible that perceptual switching may arise from a distributed system, whose components vary according to the specifics of the perceptual experiences involved. Here we used a visual and an auditory task to determine whether individuals show cross-modal commonalities in perceptual switching. We found that individual perceptual switching rates were significantly correlated across modalities. We then asked whether perceptual switching arises from som

SUBMITTER: Denham SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5940790 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature