Congruent tactile stimulation reduces the strength of visual suppression during binocular rivalry
Identifieur interne : 000627 ( Pmc/Corpus ); précédent : 000626; suivant : 000628Congruent tactile stimulation reduces the strength of visual suppression during binocular rivalry
Auteurs : Claudia Lunghi ; David AlaisSource :
- Scientific Reports [ 2045-2322 ] ; 2015.
Abstract
Presenting different images to each eye triggers ‘binocular rivalry’ in which one image is visible and the other suppressed, with the visible image alternating every second or so. We previously showed that binocular rivalry between cross-oriented gratings is altered when the fingertip explores a grooved stimulus aligned with one of the rivaling gratings: the matching visual grating's dominance duration was lengthened and its suppression duration shortened. In a more robust test, we here measure visual contrast sensitivity during rivalry dominance and suppression, with and without exploration of the grooved surface, to determine if rivalry suppression strength is modulated by touch. We find that a visual grating undergoes 45% less suppression when observers touch an aligned grating, compared to a cross-oriented one. Touching an aligned grating also improved visual detection thresholds for the ‘invisible’ suppressed grating by 2.4 dB, relative to a vision-only condition. These results show that congruent haptic stimulation prevents a visual stimulus from becoming deeply suppressed in binocular rivalry. Moreover, because congruent touch acted on the phenomenally invisible grating, this visuo-haptic interaction must precede awareness and likely occurs early in visual processing.
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DOI: 10.1038/srep09413
PubMed: 25797534
PubMed Central: 4369741
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