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On the Role of Attention in Binocular Rivalry: Electrophysiological Evidence 1,2,3 . 1,4. ¨ 1 1,5,6 Urte Roeber * , Sandra Veser , Erich Schroger , Robert P. O’Shea 1 Institute for Psychology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 2 Discipline of Psychology, School of Health and Human Sciences, Southern Cross University, Coffs ¨ ¨ Harbour, Australia, 3 Biomedical Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 4 Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany, 5 Department of Psychology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 6 Discipline of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Research Cluster, School of Health and Human Sciences, Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, Australia Abstract During binocular rivalry visual consciousness fluctuates between two dissimilar monocular images. We investigated the role of attention in this phenomenon by comparing event-related potentials (ERPs) when binocular-rivalry stimuli were attended with when they were unattended. Stimuli were dichoptic, orthogonal gratings that yielded binocular rivalry and dioptic, identically oriented gratings that yielded binocular fusion. Events were all possible orthogonal changes in orientation of one or both gratings. We had two attention conditions: In the attend-to-grating condition, participants had to report changes in perceived orientation, focussing their attention on the gratings. In the attend-to-fixation condition participants had to report changes in a central fixation target, taking attention away from the gratings. We found, surprisingly, that attending to rival