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Interdisciplinaria

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RODRIGUEZ-MARTINEZ, Guillermo; MARROQUIN-CIENDUA, Fernando; ROSA, Pedro J.  e  CASTILLO-PARRA, Henry. Perceptual reversals and time-response analyses within the scope of decoding a bistable image. Interdisciplinaria [online]. 2022, vol.39, n.1, pp.257-273.  Epub 19-Out-2021. ISSN 1668-7027.  http://dx.doi.org/10.16888/interd.2022.39.1.16.

A bistable image admits two possible interpretations, so that the observer can recognize the two percepts, but never at the same time. The alternations between percepts are called “perceptual reversals”. When the observer's position is different from the upright position, the ability to make perceptual alternations may be impaired. Besides, the recognition of the percepts of a bistable image can be a complex reaction time visual task, if it involves recognizing two different conceptual units, added to the fact of having to make a subsequent report. A visual task was performed by 88 people in order to establish whether the perception of Boring’s bistable image My girlfriend or my mother-in-law is associated with areas that condition its interpretation. It was assumed that decoding the image and reporting the perceived percept implied a complex reaction time. The task itself was done in front of a fixed 120 Hz eye-tracker, in two opposite body positions. Analyses were made reviewing the association of the percepts with bottom-up modulation areas of the image, and considering ocular fixations made 200 and 250 milliseconds before the time of the report. The records of these fixations were obtained so as to establish which of the two reaction times (200 ms or 250 ms) was involved in the bottom-up modulation process from the moment of ocular fixation to the reports given by the participants. It was concluded that perceptual reversals decrease significantly when head idiotropic axis points in the gravity vector direction, in comparison to the upright position. Likewise, associations between visual percepts and bottom-up modulating areas of the image were found when analyses were done by considering ocular fixations made 250 ms before the moment of the report. Interpreting Boring’s bistable image implies a complex visual task in accordance with the results obtained.

Palavras-chave : bistable perception; perceptual reversals; ocular fixations; time reaction; body orientation.

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