Publications by Yvonne Evelina Thunell

EEG Correlates of Relative Motion Encoding

Michael Herzog, Yvonne Evelina Thunell, Gijs Plomp

A large portion of the visual cortex is organized retinotopically, but perception is usually non-retinotopic. For example, a reflector on the spoke of a bicycle wheel appears to move on a circular or prolate cycloidal orbit as the bicycle moves forward, wh ...

Springer Verlag2016

Putting low-level vision into global context: Why vision cannot be reduced to basic circuits

Michael Herzog, Yvonne Evelina Thunell

To cope with the complexity of vision, most models in neuroscience and computer vision are of hierarchical and feedforward nature. Low-level vision, such as edge and motion detection, is explained by basic low-level neural circuits, whose outputs serve as ...

Elsevier2016

Retinotopic encoding of the Ternus-Pikler display reflected in the early visual areas

Michael Herzog, Yvonne Evelina Thunell, Wietske Van der Zwaag, Gijs Plomp

The visual representation of the world is often assumed to be retinotopic, and many visual brain areas are indeed organized retinotopically. Visual perception, however, is not based on a reference frame anchored in retinotopic coordinates. For example, whe ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)2016

EEG and fMRI correlates of non-retinotopic motion processing in the human visual system

Michael Herzog, Yvonne Evelina Thunell, Wietske Van der Zwaag, Gijs Plomp

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2015

Different colors of light lead to different adaptation and activation as determined by high-density EEG

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Michael Herzog, Yvonne Evelina Thunell, Gijs Plomp, Mirjam Münch

Light adaptation is crucial for coping with the varying levels of ambient light. Using high-density electroencephalography (EEG), we investigated how adaptation to light of different colors affects brain responsiveness. In a within-subject design, sixteen ...

Elsevier2014

Neural correlates of non-retinotopic processing in human visual cortex as determined by 7T fMRI and high-density EEG

Michael Herzog, Yvonne Evelina Thunell, Wietske Van der Zwaag, Gijs Plomp

Human perception is largely non-retinotopic. A bike passes by; we perceive the reflectors on its wheels rotating on a circular orbit. However, the “real” motion is truly different, namely cycloidal. The real, retinotopic motion is invisible because the bik ...

2014

Neural correlates of non-retinotopic visual processing and light adaptation

Yvonne Evelina Thunell

In the main part of this thesis, I investigate the neural correlates of nonretinotopic processing. We might intuitively think of the visual representation of the world as retinotopic, as is the case for the organization of most visual brain areas, but in f ...

EPFL2014

The neural correlates of non-retinotopic motion integration as revealed by high-density EEG

Michael Herzog, Yvonne Evelina Thunell, Gijs Plomp

Under normal viewing conditions, due to the motion of objects and to eye movements, the retinotopic representation of the environment constantly changes. Yet we perceive the world as stable, and we easily keep track of moving objects. Here, we investigated ...

2013

How are non-retinotopic motion signals integrated? -A high-density EEG study

Michael Herzog, Yvonne Evelina Thunell, Gijs Plomp

Objects moving in the visual scene cause retinal displacements that are not the result of motor commands and thus cannot be accounted for by efference copies. Yet, we easily keep track of moving objects even without following them with our gaze. Here, we i ...

2013

The neural correlates of non-retinotopic processing in human visual cortex: a 7T fMRI study

Michael Herzog, Yvonne Evelina Thunell, Wietske Van der Zwaag, Gijs Plomp

Under normal viewing conditions, due to e.g. the motion of objects, the retinotopic representation of the environment constantly changes. Yet we perceive the world as stable and we easily keep track of moving objects, indicating the presence of non-retinot ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2013

Neural correlates of non-retinotopic motion integration

Michael Herzog, Yvonne Evelina Thunell, Gijs Plomp

Under normal viewing conditions, due to the motion of objects and to eye movements, the retinotopic representation of the environment constantly changes. Yet we perceive the world as stable, and we easily keep track of moving objects. Here, we investigated ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2012

The neural correlates of the shine-through effect as revealed by high-density EEG

Michael Herzog, Yvonne Evelina Thunell, Gijs Plomp

When a briefly presented vernier stimulus is followed by a grating consisting of 25 lines, the vernier appears brighter, longer, wider, and superimposed on the grating (shine-through). However, the vernier is largely invisible if two of the lines in the gr ...

Pion2011

Single-trial analysis of attention deployment

Michael Herzog, Yvonne Evelina Thunell, Gijs Plomp

2010