Publications de Michael Herzog

Is there a common factor for vision?

Aims/Purpose: Eye diseases are implicitly assumed to affect vision generally. However, only visual acuity and contrast sensitivity are usually measured to determine perceptual deficits. What about orientation and motion perception? Methods: To address th ...

Wiley2025

What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?

Michael Herzog

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Neural markers of social dominance: A female-focused perspective

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Michael Herzog, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz, Wei-Hsiang Lin

Social interactions are fundamental to human life, with social dominance being a key factor in these interactions. Previous studies have shown that dominant males are faster in decision-making tasks compared to non-dominant ones, even in the absence of a s ...

Elsevier BV2025

Intact reinforcement learning in healthy ageing

Michael Herzog, Wei-Hsiang Lin

What changes with age? Results in reinforcement learning (RL) are mixed. Some studies found deteriorated RL performance in older participants compared to younger controls whereas other studies did not. Daniel et al. (J Neurosci 40(5):1084–1096, 2020. 10.15 ...

2025

Failure to replicate a superiority effect in crowding

Michael Herzog, Ayberk Ozkirli

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

To what extend cataract surgery changes perceptual functions?

Michael Herzog, Simona Adele Garobbio

Aims/Purpose: Cataract, i.e., an opacification of the natural intraocular lens, is one of the leading causes of visual impairments worldwide. Cataract surgery, which involves the removal of the opaque lens and implantation of an artificial intraocular lens ...

Wiley2025

Does surface completion fail to support uncrowding?

Michael Herzog

In crowding, perception of a target deteriorates in the presence of nearby elements. As the entire stimulus configuration across large parts of the visual field influences crowding and not just nearby elements, low-level explanations, such as local pooling ...

2025

Computational complexity as a potential limitation on brain–behaviour mapping

Michael Herzog, Ayberk Ozkirli

European Journal of Neuroscience published by Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.Within the reductionist framework, researchers in the special sciences formulate key terms and concepts and try to explain them with lower ...

2025

The CRIP effect: How a pattern in central vision interferes with perception of a pattern in the periphery

Michael Herzog

Our percept of the world is the result of interactions between central and peripheral vision. They can be facilitatory, because central vision is informative about what is in the periphery, or detrimental, such as when shape elements are pooled. We introdu ...

2025

Visual Crowding

Michael Herzog

Crowding is ubiquitous: When objects are surrounded by other elements, their perception may be impaired depending on factors such as the proximity of the surrounding elements and the grouping of elements and targets. Crowding research aims to identify thes ...

Annual Reviews2025

Oscillatory Traveling Waves Provide Evidence for Predictive Coding Abnormalities in Schizophrenia

Michael Herzog, Dario Alejandro Gordillo Lopez

Background: The computational mechanisms underlying psychiatric disorders are hotly debated. One hypothesis, grounded in the Bayesian predictive coding framework, proposes that patients with schizophrenia have abnormalities in encoding prior beliefs about ...

2025

To what extent do EEG measures reflect performance in perceptual tests?

Michael Herzog, Simona Adele Garobbio, Wei-Hsiang Lin

In many studies, EEG measures reflect performance in visual and cognitive tests, as determined by averages across different conditions or groups of participants. Based on these results, one might expect that there is also a significant correlation between ...

2025

To what extent do cataracts and cataract surgery change perception?

Michael Herzog, Simona Adele Garobbio

Cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgical procedure worldwide and is typically associated with an improvement in visual acuity (VA). This study aimed to examine how various visual functions, beyond VA and contrast sensitivity, are affected b ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)2025

Alpha peak frequency affects visual performance beyond temporal resolution

Michael Herzog, Maya Roinishvili, David Pascucci, Maëlan Quentin Menétrey

Recent work suggests that the individual alpha peak frequency (IAPF) reflects the temporal resolution of visual processing: individuals with higher IAPF can segregate stimuli at shorter intervals compared to those with lower IAPF. However, this evidence ma ...

2024

Bistable Perception Discriminates Between Depressive Patients, Controls, Schizophrenia Patients, and Their Siblings

Michael Herzog, Maya Roinishvili, Simona Adele Garobbio

Background and Hypothesis Individuals with schizophrenia have less priors than controls, meaning they rely less upon their prior experiences to interpret the current stimuli. These differences in priors are expected to show as higher alternation rates in b ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2024

Weak correlations between visual abilities in healthy older adults, despite long-term performance stability

Michael Herzog, Simona Adele Garobbio

Using batteries of visual tests, most studies have found that there are only weak correlations between the performance levels of the tests. Factor analysis has confirmed these results. This means that a participant excelling in one test may rank low in ano ...

2024

Intact Serial Dependence in Schizophrenia: Evidence from an Orientation Adjustment Task

Michael Herzog, David Pascucci

Background and Hypothesis For a long time, it was proposed that schizophrenia (SCZ) patients rely more on sensory input and less on prior information, potentially leading to reduced serial dependence-ie, a reduced influence of prior stimuli in perceptual t ...

OXFORD UNIV PRESS2024

Understanding visual perception in visual snow syndrome: a battery of psychophysical tests plus the 30-day clinical diary

Michael Herzog, Simona Adele Garobbio

Patients with visual snow syndrome (VSS) experience uncountable flickering tiny dots in the entire visual field. Symptoms often persist over the years. Very little is known about altered perception in VSS. VSS is diagnosed based on subjective reports becau ...

2024

Investigating the relationship between subjective perception and unconscious feature integration

Michael Herzog, Leila Drissi Daoudi - Kleinbauer, Lukas Vogelsang, Maëlan Quentin Menétrey

Visual features need to be temporally integrated to detect motion signals and solve the many ill-posed problems of vision. It has previously been shown that such integration occurs in windows of unconscious processing of up to 450 milliseconds. However, wh ...

2024

The Two Times Problem: Where Is the Problem?

Michael Herzog

Gruber et al. (2022) offered a framework how to explain "Physical time within human time", solving the 'two times problem: Here, I am asking whether such a problem exists at all. To question the question, I will appeal to neurobiological, evolutionary, and ...

Brill2024