BINOCULAR RIVALRY ONLINE (BRO)

Binocular rivalry has been studied for well over 100 years. Much is known about how the brain alternates perception between two different images presented separately, one to each eye. Recently, there has been great interest in potential clinical applications of binocular rivalry, particularly in psychiatric and neurologic populations. This was prompted by discovery in the late 1990's by BRO project leader, Dr Steven Miller, and Professor Jack Pettigrew, that binocular rivalry in persons with the heritable psychiatric condition, bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression), is different to that observed in non-clinical persons. The finding has been replicated by independent research groups in Japan, New Zealand and China... Binocular rivalry is a visual phenomenon that involves perceptual switching in response to different images presented to each eye. There has been recent interest in how binocular rivalry may be applied in clinical populations, particularly in psychiatry and..

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