page_title: Binocular Rivalry Described by Quantum Formalism
hierarchical_section_title: Binocular Rivalry Described by Quantum Formalism
caption_attribution_description: English: An example of the phenomenon of binocular rivalry. This image could be perceived as a folded sheet of paper with its edge folded inwards or outwards.
context_page_description: Binocular rivalry is a visual phenomenon wherein one experiences alternating perceptions due to the occurrence of different stimuli presented to the corresponding retinal regions of the two eyes and their competition for perceptual dominance.
  As they compete, alternations between stimuli typically occur after a few seconds of steady vision. Neuroscientists have used binocular rivalry as a means to test neural responses and have found that the time intervals for these responses correlate with the alternations in perceptual dominance.
  A famous example of the phenomenon as described by Giambattista della Porta in the sixteenth-century, was to try reading two pages, each from a different book. The reader is to train an eye on each page and attempt to read one without disruption from the other eye.
  However, the rivalry is not always triggered; sometimes the stimuli blend together in a superposition of the original two stimuli or they fuse into a stable average. The rivalry is easily triggered by factors such as a difference in colour or brightness between the two stimuli, velocity, pattern and low-light settings.
context_section_description: Binocular rivalry is a visual phenomenon wherein one experiences alternating perceptions due to the occurrence of different stimuli presented to the corresponding retinal regions of the two eyes and their competition for perceptual dominance.
  As they compete, alternations between stimuli typically occur after a few seconds of steady vision. Neuroscientists have used binocular rivalry as a means to test neural responses and have found that the time intervals for these responses correlate with the alternations in perceptual dominance.
  A famous example of the phenomenon as described by Giambattista della Porta in the sixteenth-century, was to try reading two pages, each from a different book. The reader is to train an eye on each page and attempt to read one without disruption from the other eye.
  However, the rivalry is not always triggered; sometimes the stimuli blend together in a superposition of the original two stimuli or they fuse into a stable average. The rivalry is easily triggered by factors such as a difference in colour or brightness between the two stimuli, velocity, pattern and low-light settings.
  Binocular rivalry as a quantum formalism was first proposed by Efstratios Manousakis in his paper Quantum Formalism to Describe Binocular Rivalry in which he theorizes a mathematical description of the increase in dominance duration in binocular rivalry to make quantum predictions in which the observer affects the outcome for the distribution of perceptual alteration in time.
caption: An example of the phenomenon of binocular rivalry. This image could be perceived as a folded sheet of paper with its edge folded inwards or outwards.
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