or: Intra- and interocular colour-specific activation during dichoptic suppression (Van Lier & De Weert, 2003)
A new psychophysical method, based on dichoptic suppression, is introduced to study intra- and interocular colour activations. An experiment shows that activation of a specific colour in one eye may cancel suppression of the same colour in the ipsi-lateral eye or in the contra-lateral eye at non-corresponding retinal locations.A control experiment shows that the effect is not due to an overall response bias to the activated colour.
The colour-specific intra- and interocular activation might play a role
in various colour-based percepts known in the literature.
The upper row shows an example of a stimulus; the lower row shows a
typical corresponding percept (see here
for further explanation).