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Vision Research

Volume 15, Issue 7, July 1975, Pages 849-853
Vision Research

Optokinetic nystagmus as an objective indicator of binocular rivalry

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Abstract

When each eye is separately stimulated by moving contours that generate antagonistic optokinetic nystagmus, vigorous phenomenal rivalry results, yet the nystagmus eye movements remain yoked and shift direction in accord with the eye that is phenomenally dominant. The feasibility of using this nystagmus rivalry as an indicator of phenomenal dominance was examined. The high correlation between phenomenal report and nystagmus rivalry, together with stochastic and stimulus similarities between nystagmus rivalry and conventional rivalry, support using nystagmus as an objective indicator.

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