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Influence of aging on visual attention and peripheral perception. 衰老对视觉注意和外周知觉的影响。

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Journal of Vision Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1167/jov.25.12.1

Anne-Sophie Laurin, Noémie Redureau, Julie Ouerfelli-Ethier, Christine Gao, Georgiana Tolan, Daria Balan, Amine Rafai, Laure Pisella, Aarlenne Zein Khan

{"title":"Influence of aging on visual attention and peripheral perception.","authors":"Anne-Sophie Laurin, Noémie Redureau, Julie Ouerfelli-Ethier, Christine Gao, Georgiana Tolan, Daria Balan, Amine Rafai, Laure Pisella, Aarlenne Zein Khan","doi":"10.1167/jov.25.12.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.12.1","url":null,"abstract":"During visual search, our attention extends around each fixation. It has been suggested that, in aging, there is a reduced attentional field, leading to visual function declines. To investigate the attentional field, 30 younger and 20 older adults performed a pop-out visual search task. We estimated each participant's attentional field size based on their search times in the presence of different sizes of gaze-contingent visible windows (25°, 20°, and 15° around fixation). Further, we tested whether performance in the visual search task was related to peripheral visual function. Participants performed a contrast discrimination task and two motion perception tasks (local and global motion perception). In these tasks, stimuli were presented at two different peripheral eccentricities (5° and 10°). Overall, older adults took longer than younger adults to report the presence of the target in the control full-view pop-out search task. Compared to younger participants, they also had a significantly smaller attentional field. In addition, irrespective of eccentricity, older adults had higher peripheral contrast discrimination thresholds and a higher threshold in global motion perception, but not local. We also found negative correlations between attentional field size and thresholds for contrast discrimination and for global motion perception for older adults. In conclusion, we observed reduced attentional fields in aging, which were associated with lowered contrast and lowered global motion perception. These results highlight the importance of spatial covert attention in peripheral visual function and support the notion of a decline in the functions of the dorsal visual network in aging.","PeriodicalId":49955,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vision","volume":"25 12","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145201907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Mask dynamics in eye region-based person identification: Effects of mask removal and addition. 基于眼睛区域的人识别中的眼罩动态：去除和添加眼罩的效果。

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Journal of Vision Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1167/jov.25.12.15

Teresa Garcia-Marques, Manuel Oliveira, Paulo Ventura

{"title":"Mask dynamics in eye region-based person identification: Effects of mask removal and addition.","authors":"Teresa Garcia-Marques, Manuel Oliveira, Paulo Ventura","doi":"10.1167/jov.25.12.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.12.15","url":null,"abstract":"What is the impact of dynamic changes in facial visibility on identifying the eye and forehead region? This study examines how wearing or removing a mask affects the ability to visually identify the eyes. We investigate whether these changes impact the recognition of upper facial features and alter sensitivity to the misalignment of the face's upper and lower halves, which disrupts holistic face processing. Results show that removing a mask generally impairs visual identification, suggesting that the perception of the whole face hinders recognition of the upper half. This hindering is evident from the fact that the interference decreases when the face is misaligned. In contrast, the impairment in identification caused by adding a mask to a target face rises from losing original support of the holistic processing, given that it was not diminished when the upper and bottom halves were misaligned. Additional findings show that misalignment negatively affects the identification of faces where a mask was either maintained or added, suggesting that masks may actually help direct attention to relevant facial features, rather than being integrated into a holistic representation. We discuss these results in light of their theoretical and practical implications for visual identification, particularly in the context of dynamic changes to facial appearance.","PeriodicalId":49955,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vision","volume":"25 12","pages":"15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145240481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Vertical shifts of visuospatial attention, not (eye) movements, affect auditory pitch discrimination. 视觉空间注意力的垂直转移，而不是（眼睛）运动，影响听觉音高辨别。

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Journal of Vision Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1167/jov.25.12.6

Adrien Paire, Dorine Vergilino-Perez, Céline Paeye

{"title":"Vertical shifts of visuospatial attention, not (eye) movements, affect auditory pitch discrimination.","authors":"Adrien Paire, Dorine Vergilino-Perez, Céline Paeye","doi":"10.1167/jov.25.12.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.12.6","url":null,"abstract":"Preparing an ocular saccade is known to affect not only the perception of various visual features, such as orientation, contrast, and numerosity, but also sound localization. In the present study, we tested whether saccade preparation influences the perception of other auditory features, such as the pitch of a tone played before eye movement. We also examined whether pitch could influence saccade characteristics, as an instance of response compatibility effects. At the beginning of each trial, a visual cue indicated that a disk would appear above or below fixation. Participants were then presented with a tone of varying frequency and were instructed either to make a saccade toward the peripheral disk after the tone ended or to maintain fixation on the center of the screen. Pitch was consistently overestimated when the disk appeared in the upper visual field compared with the lower visual field. However, we found no evidence that saccade preparation affected pitch perception and no evidence of response compatibility effects. These findings suggest that vertical shifts of visuospatial attention are sufficient to impact pitch discrimination, likely through the activation of the spatial representation inherent to pitch.","PeriodicalId":49955,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vision","volume":"25 12","pages":"6"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145233848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Detecting unnaturalness in biological motion with altered playback speeds. 通过改变回放速度来检测生物运动中的不自然。

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Journal of Vision Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1167/jov.25.12.9

Kan Misumi, Hiroshi Ueda, Yuichiro Nishiura, Katsumi Watanabe

{"title":"Detecting unnaturalness in biological motion with altered playback speeds.","authors":"Kan Misumi, Hiroshi Ueda, Yuichiro Nishiura, Katsumi Watanabe","doi":"10.1167/jov.25.12.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.12.9","url":null,"abstract":"Prior research showed that observers can tolerate large speed alterations in real-world videos. The present study examined how sensitive the human visual system is to the change of kinematic information of human actions with altered playback speeds. We recorded four persons walking at various speeds and produced point-light walker stimuli (standard stimuli), from which we also created test stimuli either by speeding up or slowing down the playback speed. In the experiments, two point-light walkers were presented sequentially: one standard and the other test stimuli. Importantly, in each trial, the expected speed of translation was kept constant (e.g., a pair of one walking at 5.40 km/h and the other walking at 2.70 km/h but played with double speed), differing only in gait kinematic information. Participants reported which stimulus was played at a normal speed. We also included the manipulations of orientation (upright vs. inverted) and spatial scrambling of the point-light dots. The results showed that the unnaturalness detection was performed at above chance levels, confirming that kinematic inconsistencies provided a discernible cue. However, detection was only reliable when the speed alteration in a test stimulus was fairly large. Interestingly, we found little differences in performance among upright-intact, inverted, and scrambled conditions. The lack of the large detriments from inversion or scrambling suggests that the participants did not rely strongly on global form or orientation cues to perform the unnaturalness detection and points to greater contributions of local motion signals.","PeriodicalId":49955,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vision","volume":"25 12","pages":"9"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145240451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Dynamic versus static facial color changes: Evidence for terminal color dominance in expression recognition. 动态与静态面部颜色变化：表情识别中终端颜色优势的证据。

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Journal of Vision Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1167/jov.25.12.8

Miku Shibusawa, Yuya Hasegawa, Hideki Tamura, Shigeki Nakauchi, Tetsuto Minami

{"title":"Dynamic versus static facial color changes: Evidence for terminal color dominance in expression recognition.","authors":"Miku Shibusawa, Yuya Hasegawa, Hideki Tamura, Shigeki Nakauchi, Tetsuto Minami","doi":"10.1167/jov.25.12.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.12.8","url":null,"abstract":"Facial color is closely linked to the perception of emotion, with reddish tones often being associated with anger. Although previous studies have shown that static reddish facial tones enhance the perception of anger, whether dynamic changes in facial color further amplify this effect remains unclear. This study investigated how differences in facial color influence the perception of expression using a judgment task that involved morphed facial stimuli (fearful to angry). The participants evaluated facial expressions under two conditions: faces with dynamic color changes and faces with static colors. Experiment 1 compared redder (CIELAB a*+) faces to original-colored faces, and Experiment 2 compared greener (CIELAB a*-) faces to original-colored faces. Experiment 3 compared redder faces to original-colored faces under rapid facial color change conditions. None the experiments revealed significant differences between dynamic and static facial colors; however, faces with a final reddish color (higher a* value) were more likely to be perceived as angry. These findings suggest that the final facial color influences the perception of anger independent of whether the color change is dynamic or static. Our findings support the idea that the recognition of anger is modulated by the relationship between an angry expression and the color red. This study provides a new perspective on the interaction between facial expression and facial color, suggesting that the final facial color plays a significant role in facial expression judgment.","PeriodicalId":49955,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vision","volume":"25 12","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145233872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Eye movements during gaze perception. 在凝视感知过程中的眼球运动。

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Journal of Vision Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1167/jov.25.12.3

Gernot Horstmann

{"title":"Eye movements during gaze perception.","authors":"Gernot Horstmann","doi":"10.1167/jov.25.12.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.12.3","url":null,"abstract":"The gaze of other people is of interest to human observers, particularly in cases of direct gaze, that is, when it targets the observer. Gaze direction research has successfully clarified some of the mechanisms underlying gaze perception, but little is known about the active perception of direct gaze. Three eye-tracking experiments were conducted in which fixations and scan paths were recorded during the task to judge direct gaze. Somewhat surprisingly, judgments were issued after a single eye fixation only in a minority of trials. In most cases, observers fixated both eyes of a looker model, sometimes even scanning them repeatedly. Fixation duration showed a consistent pattern, where first fixations were longer when the task response followed immediately, and second fixations were shorter just before the response. A direct-gaze bias was tested but was not found: visiting the second eye was even more likely when the first fixation was on a straight-gazing rather than an averted eye. There was no systematic pattern in the final fixation, contradicting the expectation that it would fall on the abducting (leading) eye. It is argued that overt looking behavior during direct gaze judgments reflects a cumulative decision process that spans over consecutive fixations. Several factors may contribute to the high incidence of multiple-eye scans, including vergence and angle kappa. Vergence, in particular, is considered an important candidate, because the depth of fixation is ambiguous when only one eye is visible, but can be limited by probing the gaze direction of both eyes.","PeriodicalId":49955,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vision","volume":"25 12","pages":"3"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145214339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Relationships among lightness illusions uncovered by analyses of individual differences. 个体差异分析揭示的轻错觉之间的关系。

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Journal of Vision Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1167/jov.25.12.14

Yuki Kobayashi, Arthur G Shapiro

{"title":"Relationships among lightness illusions uncovered by analyses of individual differences.","authors":"Yuki Kobayashi, Arthur G Shapiro","doi":"10.1167/jov.25.12.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.12.14","url":null,"abstract":"Computational models that explain lightness/brightness illusions have been proposed. These models have been assessed using a simplistic criterion: the number of illusions each model can correctly predict from the test set. This simple method of evaluation assumes that each illusion is independent; however, because the independence and similarity among lightness illusions have not been well established, potential interdependencies among the illusions in the test set could distort the evaluation of models. Moreover, evaluating models with a single value obscures where the model's strengths and weaknesses lie. We collected the magnitudes of various lightness illusions through two online experiments and applied exploratory factor analyses. Both experiments identified some underlying factors in these illusions, suggesting that they can be classified into a few distinct groups. Experiment 1 identified three common factors; assimilation, contrast, and White's effect. Experiment 2, with a different illusion set, identified two factors-assimilation and contrast. We then examined three well-known models that are based on early visual processes, using the outcomes of the experiments. The examination of these models revealed biases in the models toward specific factors or sets of illusions, which suggested their limitations. This study clarified that correlations of illusion magnitudes provide valuable insights into both illusions and models and highlighted the need to assess models based on their ability to account for underlying factors rather than individual illusions.","PeriodicalId":49955,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vision","volume":"25 12","pages":"14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145240428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Perceptual learning of prosthetic vision using video game training. 基于视频游戏训练的假肢视觉感知学习。

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Journal of Vision Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1167/jov.25.12.12

Rebecca B Esquenazi, Kimberly Meier, Michael Beyeler, Drake Wright, Geoffrey M Boynton, Ione Fine

{"title":"Perceptual learning of prosthetic vision using video game training.","authors":"Rebecca B Esquenazi, Kimberly Meier, Michael Beyeler, Drake Wright, Geoffrey M Boynton, Ione Fine","doi":"10.1167/jov.25.12.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.12.12","url":null,"abstract":"A key limitation shared by both electronic and optogenetic sight recovery technologies is that they cause simultaneous rather than complementary firing within on- and off-center cells. Here, using \"virtual patients\"-sighted individuals viewing distorted input-we examine whether gamified training improves the ability to compensate for distortions in neuronal population coding. We measured perceptual learning using dichoptic input, filtered so that regions of the image that produced on-center responses in one eye produced off-center responses in the other eye. The Non-Gaming control group carried out an object discrimination task over five sessions using this filtered input. The Gaming group carried out an additional 25 hours of gamified training using a similarly filtered variant of the video game Fruit Ninja. Both groups showed improvements over time in the object discrimination task. However, there was no significant transfer of learning from the \"Fruit Ninja\" task to the object discrimination task. The lack of transfer of learning from video game training to object recognition suggests that gamification-based rehabilitation for sight recovery technologies may have limited utility and may be most effective when targeted on learning specific visual tasks.","PeriodicalId":49955,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vision","volume":"25 12","pages":"12"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145240446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Individual variability in steady-state VEP responses for hues sweeping around cardinal color axes: Clues to cortical color coding? 在基本色轴周围扫过的色调的稳定状态VEP反应中的个体差异：皮质颜色编码的线索？

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Journal of Vision Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1167/jov.25.12.2

Sae Kaneko, Ichiro Kuriki, Søren K Andersen, David Henry Peterzell

{"title":"Individual variability in steady-state VEP responses for hues sweeping around cardinal color axes: Clues to cortical color coding?","authors":"Sae Kaneko, Ichiro Kuriki, Søren K Andersen, David Henry Peterzell","doi":"10.1167/jov.25.12.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.12.2","url":null,"abstract":"We investigated how early human visual cortex processes color by analyzing individual variability in steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs). Sixteen participants viewed a flickering checkerboard that swept around the isoluminant hue circle at three chromatic contrasts. The current study analyzed the individual variability in the SSVEP data from the study to elucidate the hue-selective mechanisms in the early visual areas using a factor-analytic approach. The initial analyses of the correlations revealed that the responses to the nearby hues correlated highly, which is consistent with multiple overlapping color channels. Also, the correlational pattern showed consistent peaks and troughs at specific hue angles: 0° (+L-M), 30°, 120°, 180° (-L+M), 240°, and 300°. We further performed nonmetric multidimensional scaling, identifying four significant hue dimensions. Peaks and troughs of the dimension components were consistent with the hue angles revealed in the correlational pattern. Additional four hues also appeared in the last dimension: 90° (+S), 150°, 270° (-S), and 330°. The 10 (six plus four) hues suggested in these analyses may subserve the basis of early cortical color processing, including classical cone opponency and the mechanisms tuned to the intermediate hues.","PeriodicalId":49955,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vision","volume":"25 12","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145201881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Breaking and restoring ocular balance: Temporal interactions in binocular rivalry and stereopsis. 打破和恢复眼平衡：双眼竞争和立体视的时间相互作用。

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Journal of Vision Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1167/jov.25.12.5

Rong Jiang, Ming Meng

{"title":"Breaking and restoring ocular balance: Temporal interactions in binocular rivalry and stereopsis.","authors":"Rong Jiang, Ming Meng","doi":"10.1167/jov.25.12.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.12.5","url":null,"abstract":"Binocular integration and interocular suppression are fundamental processes underlying binocular vision, giving rise to stereopsis and binocular rivalry, respectively. To investigate how the visual system dynamically coordinates these processes to form a unified percept, we conducted four psychophysical experiments examining the temporal interactions between binocular rivalry and stereopsis. In Experiment 1a, binocular rivalry, especially with high-contrast stimuli, impaired subsequent stereopsis, significantly elevating average stereo detection thresholds from 60.5 to 111.8 arcsec. Experiment 1b revealed no effect on contrast detection, confirming that the suppression was specific to stereopsis rather than due to general attentional distraction. Experiment 2a revealed that preceding stereopsis rebalanced subsequent rivalry dynamics by reducing ocular dominance asymmetry and increasing mixed percepts, without affecting alternation rate. Experiment 2b further demonstrated that anti-correlated stereograms, which do not elicit stable stereopsis, exerted no effect on subsequent rivalry dynamics. These findings underscore a dynamic interplay between binocular integration and suppression in resolving perceptual ambiguity and achieving unified visual perception. Crucially, our results reinforce that stereopsis is not merely a passive consequence of binocular integration, but actively contributes to rebalancing ocular dominance, thus offering insights for interventions aimed at restoring binocular function.","PeriodicalId":49955,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Vision","volume":"25 12","pages":"5"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145214363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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