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Cerebral Potentials evoked by Pattern Reversal and their Suppression in Visual Rivalry

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SINCE the introduction of techniques to improve the signal to noise ratio1, the number of publications on human visual evoked potentials has been considerable; usually the stimulus has been a brief flash or series of flashes (flicker) on an unstructured field, but recently the interest of patterned fields has become apparent2–4. Following a suggestion by Gross et al.5 we have demonstrated the effectiveness of “pattern reversal”, without change in the total luminous flux, in evoking visual cortical responses and have applied the method to the investigation of binocular rivalry.

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  1. National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London

    W. A. COBB & H. B. MORTON

  2. Institute of Psychiatry, Denmark Hill, London

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COBB, W., MORTON, H. & ETTLINGER, G. Cerebral Potentials evoked by Pattern Reversal and their Suppression in Visual Rivalry. Nature 216, 1123–1125 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2161123b0

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