Researchers today in neuroscience and cognitive psychology increasingly                  turn their attention to binocular rivalry and other forms of perceptual ambiguity or                  bistability. The study of fluctuations in visual perception in the face of                  unchanging visual input offers a means for understanding the link between neural                  events and visual events, including visual awareness. Some neuroscientists believe                  that binocular rivalry reveals a fundamental aspect of human cognition and provides                  a way to isolate and study brain areas involved in attention and selection. The                  eighteen essays collected in Binocular Rivalry present the most recent theoretical                  and empirical work on this key topic by leading researchers in the field.After the                  opening chapter's overview of the major characteristics of binocular rivalry in                  their historical contexts, the contributors consider topics ranging from the basic                  phenomenon of perceptual ambiguity to brain models and neural networks. The essays                  illustrate the potential power of the study of perceptual ambiguity as a tool for                  learning about the neural concomitants of visual awareness, or, as they have been                  called, the "neural correlates of consciousness."

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