Disrupting Parietal Function Prolongs Dominance Durations in Binocular Rivalry

• Published in: Current biology Vol. 20; no. 23; pp. 2106 - 2111
• Main Authors: Zaretskaya, Natalia, Thielscher, Axel, Logothetis, Nikos K., Bartels, Andreas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 07.12.2010
• Subjects: Adult; Brain Mapping; Dominance, Ocular - physiology; Female; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Male; Parietal Lobe - anatomy & histology; Parietal Lobe - physiology; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation - methods; Vision, Binocular - physiology; Visual Perception - physiology; Young Adult

Human brain imaging studies of bistable perceptual phenomena revealed that frontal and parietal areas are activated during perceptual switches between the two conflicting percepts [1–3]. However, these studies do not provide information about causality, i.e., whether activity reports a consequence o...