Jump to content

Multistability

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Alexander Maier~enwiki (talk | contribs) at 21:09, 22 December 2004. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Multistability is a system property. It refers to systems that are neither stable nor totally instable, but alternate between two or more mutually exclusive states over time.

In vision science, multistable perception characterizes the wavering percepts that can be brought about by certain visually ambiguous pattern such as the Necker cube, Monocular rivalry or Binocular rivalry.