Advantage of hole stimulus in rivalry competition.
Mounting psychophysical evidence suggests that early visual computations are sensitive to the topological properties of stimuli, such as the determination of whether the object has a hole or not. Previous studies have demonstrated that the hole feature took some advantages during conscious perceptio...
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| author | Qianli Meng Ding Cui Ke Zhou Lin Chen Yuanye Ma |
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| description | Mounting psychophysical evidence suggests that early visual computations are sensitive to the topological properties of stimuli, such as the determination of whether the object has a hole or not. Previous studies have demonstrated that the hole feature took some advantages during conscious perception. In this study, we investigate whether there exists a privileged processing for hole stimuli during unconscious perception. By applying a continuous flash suppression paradigm, the target was gradually introduced to one eye to compete against a flashed full contrast Mondrian pattern which was presented to the other eye. This method ensured that the target image was suppressed during the initial perceptual period. We compared the initial suppressed duration between the stimuli with and without the hole feature and found that hole stimuli required less time than no-hole stimuli to gain dominance against the identical suppression noise. These results suggest the hole feature could be processed in the absence of awareness, and there exists a privileged detection of hole stimuli during suppressed phase in the interocular rivalry. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-57f3662941bc4e7db119e7068e7366492022-12-21T18:59:41ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032012-01-0173e3305310.1371/journal.pone.0033053Advantage of hole stimulus in rivalry competition.Qianli MengDing CuiKe ZhouLin ChenYuanye MaMounting psychophysical evidence suggests that early visual computations are sensitive to the topological properties of stimuli, such as the determination of whether the object has a hole or not. Previous studies have demonstrated that the hole feature took some advantages during conscious perception. In this study, we investigate whether there exists a privileged processing for hole stimuli during unconscious perception. By applying a continuous flash suppression paradigm, the target was gradually introduced to one eye to compete against a flashed full contrast Mondrian pattern which was presented to the other eye. This method ensured that the target image was suppressed during the initial perceptual period. We compared the initial suppressed duration between the stimuli with and without the hole feature and found that hole stimuli required less time than no-hole stimuli to gain dominance against the identical suppression noise. These results suggest the hole feature could be processed in the absence of awareness, and there exists a privileged detection of hole stimuli during suppressed phase in the interocular rivalry.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3310859?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Qianli Meng Ding Cui Ke Zhou Lin Chen Yuanye Ma Advantage of hole stimulus in rivalry competition. PLoS ONE |
| title | Advantage of hole stimulus in rivalry competition. |
| title_full | Advantage of hole stimulus in rivalry competition. |
| title_fullStr | Advantage of hole stimulus in rivalry competition. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Advantage of hole stimulus in rivalry competition. |
| title_short | Advantage of hole stimulus in rivalry competition. |
| title_sort | advantage of hole stimulus in rivalry competition |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3310859?pdf=render |
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