biostudies-literatureUnknown2025(1)Yilmaz COur subjective experience of the sensory information is rich and complex. Yet, typical cognitive and perception psychology paradigms reduce it to a few predefined discrete categories, like yes/no answers or the Likert scales. In the current study, we examined the complexity of subjective visual experience during binocular rivalry, a major experimental paradigm used to study conscious visual perception and its neural mechanisms. Binocular rivalry occurs when the two eyes are presented with two different images that cannot be fused into a uniform percept. As a result, the conscious perception alternates between the two images with brief transition phases in between. Fifty-two subjects viewed binocular rivalry produced by pairs of stimuli with different visual information (images, orthogonal Neuroscience of consciousnessniaf004https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11879079biostudies-literatureThe complexity of human subjective experience during binocular rivalry.PMC11879079Ischebeck APabel LYilmaz CSipatchin ABartels AKerschenbauer EZaretskaya NfalseThe complexity of human subjective experience during binocular rivalry.Our subjective experience of the sensory information is rich and complex. Yet, typical cognitive and perception psychology paradigms reduce it to a few predefined discrete categories, like yes/no answers or the Likert scales. In the current study, we examined the complexity of subjective visual experience during binocular rivalry, a major experimental paradigm used to study conscious visual perception and its neural mechanisms. Binocular rivalry occurs when the two eyes are presented with two different images that cannot be fused into a uniform percept. As a result, the conscious perception alternates between the two images with brief transition phases in between. Fifty-two subjects viewed binocular rivalry produced by pairs of stimuli with different visual information (images, orthogonal 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z20252025-04-21T15:58:10.639Z2025-04-21T15:58:10.639ZS-EPMC118790794004174410.1093/nc/niaf004