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Rapid Perceptual Switching of a Reversible Biological Figure 1,2 1 2 Stuart Jackson *, Fred Cummins , Nuala Brady 1 Cognitive Science, UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland, United Kingdom, 2 Perception Lab, UCD School of Psychology, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland, United Kingdom Abstract Certain visual stimuli can give rise to contradictory perceptions. In this paper we examine the temporal dynamics of perceptual reversals experienced with biological motion, comparing these dynamics to those observed with other ¨ ambiguous structure from motion (SFM) stimuli. In our first experiment, naıve observers monitored perceptual alternations with an ambiguous rotating walker, a figure that randomly alternates between walking in clockwise (CW) and counter- clockwise (CCW) directions. While the number of reported reversals varied between observers, the observed dynamics (distribution of dominance durations, CW/CCW proportions) were comparable to those experienced with an ambiguous kinetic depth cylinder. In a second experiment, we compared reversal profiles with rotating and standard point-light walkers (i.e. non-rotating). Over multiple test repetitions, three out of four observers experienced consistently shorter mean percept durations with the rotating walker, suggesting that the added rotational component may speed up reversal rates with biomotion. For both stimuli, the drift in alternation rate across trial and across repetition was minimal. In our final experiment, we investigated