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Binocular rivalry alternations between single lines oriented at 0 and 90 deg or 0 and 45 deg were measured. The lines were viewed as either real images or afterimages. The experiment was designed to determine whether or not a vertical (0 deg) line predominates for longer than a nonvertical line and to compare the temporal characteristics of rivalry between real images and afterimages. There were no systematic differences in predominance durations under any of the rivalry pairings or viewing conditions. The dominance periods for rivalry between afterimages were longer than those for real images. Frequency distributions of the dominance periods were all positively skewed, and the parameters of the fitted gamma distributions were similar in all cases. Tests of the sequential dependence of successive dominance periods indicated that they were independent for both real images and afterimages.
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Wade, N.J. Binocular rivalry between single lines viewed as real images and afterimages. Perception & Psychophysics 17, 571–577 (1975). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03203971
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