Mechanistic understanding of binocular rivalry (BR) has drawn upon psychophysical, electrophysiological and brain-imaging studies. The first brain stimulation approach occurred in the late 1990s and assessed a new mechanistic proposal, the interhemispheric switch (IHS) hypothesis. Both caloric vestibular stimulation (CVS) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) modulated rivalry predominance when applied unilaterally. We describe the IHS model, its genesis and the brain stimulation evidence on which it rests. We also review more recent CVS and TMS rivalry studies, and discuss the findings of slow BR in bipolar disorder (BD) and genetic contribution to individual variation in BR rate. Finally, we describe a recent Drosophila model that can shed light on genetic, molecular and neurophysiological aspects of both BR and BD.
2018. Genomic Analyses of Visual Cognition: Perceptual Rivalry and Top-Down Control. The Journal of Neuroscience 38:45 ► pp. 9668 ff.
Law, Phillip CF, Caroline T Gurvich, Trung T Ngo & Steven M Miller
2017. Evidence that eye‐movement profiles do not explain slow binocular rivalry rate in bipolar disorder: support for a perceptual endophenotype. Bipolar Disorders 19:6 ► pp. 465 ff.
Miller, Steven M
2016. Vestibular neuromodulation: stimulating the neural crossroads of psychiatric illness. Bipolar Disorders 18:6 ► pp. 539 ff.
Miller, Steven M.
2014. Closing in on the constitution of consciousness. Frontiers in Psychology 5
2020. Fluctuations of consciousness, mood, and science: The interhemispheric switch and sticky switch models two decades on. Journal of Comparative Neurology 528:17 ► pp. 3171 ff.
Law, Phillip C. F., Bryan K. Paton, Jacqueline A. Riddiford, Caroline T. Gurvich, Trung T. Ngo & Steven M. Miller
2015. No Relationship Between Binocular Rivalry Rate and Eye-Movement Profiles in Healthy Individuals: A Bayes Factor Analysis. Perception 44:6 ► pp. 643 ff.
Law, Phillip C. F., Bryan K. Paton, Richard H. Thomson, Guang B. Liu, Steven M. Miller & Trung T. Ngo
2013. Dichoptic Viewing Methods for Binocular Rivalry Research: Prospects for Large-Scale Clinical and Genetic Studies. Twin Research and Human Genetics 16:6 ► pp. 1033 ff.
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