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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 27.
Published in final edited form as: Multisens Res. 2016;29(6-7):585–606. doi: 10.1163/22134808-00002529

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Diagram of a binocular rivalry display and possible effects of crossmodal stimulation on rivalrous visual perception. (A) An example of dichoptic stimulation in which orthogonal gratings are separately presented to the eyes, the resulting conscious perception (B) is dominated by one of the two monocular images until a perceptual switch occurs in favour of the other visual stimulus. Normally dominance duration of the rivalrous stimuli is balanced. (C) Example of crossmodal stimulation prolonging dominance of the congruent visual stimulus during binocular rivalry: if the observer touches a haptic grating parallel to the visual grating dominating rivalrous perception, the switch towards the orthogonal (incongruent) visual grating is delayed as compared to visual only stimulation. (D) Example of crossmodal stimulation shortening the suppression of the congruent visual stimulus during binocular rivalry: if the observer touches a haptic grating orthogonal to the visual grating dominating rivalrous perception, the switch towards the parallel (congruent) visual grating occurs earlier compared to visual only stimulation.