On the Discovery of Monocular Rivalry by Tscherning in 1898: Translation and Review
Monocular rivalry was named by Breese in 1899. He made prolonged observation of superimposed orthogonal gratings; they fluctuated in clarity with either one or the other grating occasionally being visible alone. A year earlier, Tscherning observed similar fluctuations with a grid of vertical and hor...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2017-11-01
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| Series: | i-Perception |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669517743523 |
| Summary: | Monocular rivalry was named by Breese in 1899. He made prolonged observation of superimposed orthogonal gratings; they fluctuated in clarity with either one or the other grating occasionally being visible alone. A year earlier, Tscherning observed similar fluctuations with a grid of vertical and horizontal lines and with other stimuli; we draw attention to his prior account. Monocular rivalry has since been shown to occur with a wide variety of superimposed patterns with several independent rediscoveries of it. We also argue that Helmholtz described some phenomenon other than monocular rivalry in 1867. |
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| ISSN: | 2041-6695 |