Editing Multistable perception (section)

== Classification ==
Perceptual [[multistability]] can be evoked by visual patterns that are too [[ambiguous]] for the human [[visual system]] to definitively and uniquely interpret. Familiar examples include the [[Necker cube]], [[Schroeder staircase]], [[structure from motion]], [[monocular rivalry]], and [[binocular rivalry]], but many more visually [[ambiguous image|ambiguous patterns]] are known. Because most of these images lead to an alternation between two mutually exclusive perceptual states, they are sometimes also referred to as bistable perception.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Eagleman | first = D. | title = Visual Illusions and Neurobiology | journal = Nature Reviews Neuroscience | year = 2001 | volume = 2 | issue = 12 | pages = 920–926 | url = http://neuro.bcm.edu/eagleman/papers/Eagleman.NatureRevNeuro.Illusions.pdf | doi = 10.1038/35104092 | pmid = 11733799 | s2cid = 205023280 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927212714/http://neuro.bcm.edu/eagleman/papers/Eagleman.NatureRevNeuro.Illusions.pdf | archivedate = 2007-09-27 }}</ref>

[[multistable auditory perception|Auditory]] and [[olfactory]] examples can occur when there are conflicting, and so rival, inputs into the two [[ear]]s<ref>{{ cite journal |
author = Deutsch, D. | year = 1974 | title = An Auditory Illusion | journal = Nature | volume = 251 | issue = 5473 | pages = 307–309 | doi = 10.1038/251307a0 | pmid = 4427654 | s2cid = 4273134 }}</ref> or two [[nostril]]s.<ref>{{ cite journal |author1=Zhou, W. |author2=Chen, D. | year = 2009 | title =  Binaral Rivalry Between the Nostrils and in the Cortex | journal = Current Biology | volume = 19 | issue = 18 | pages = 1561–1565 | doi = 10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.052 | pmid = 19699095 | pmc=2901510}}</ref>