Christina Doumpioti

…ngth’ of rival images determine roughly how long they will remain dominant before being suppressed. In fact it’s possible to design images such that one image is permanently dominant while the other is permanently suppressed.

However, when each eye is presented with dissimilar monocular images (i.e. images which are more different than the same scene from slightly different viewpoints), the brain has a hard time making sense of these conflicting signals and is unable to combine them into a coherent vision. Instead of ‘seeing’ both images at the same time, these ‘rival’ images fight for perceptual awarenes…

Binocular Rivalry (BR)