Publications de Aline Françoise Cretenoud

About common factors in vision

Michael Herzog, Maya Roinishvili, Ophélie Gladys Favrod, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Lukasz Grzeczkowski, Simona Adele Garobbio, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz, Dario Alejandro Gordillo Lopez

Often, we intuitively assume that there are common factors in life. For example, we test people with a visual acuity test to determine whether they are allowed to drive a car or not- with the implicit assumption that the acuity test is representative of vi ...

SAGE Publishing2021

Individual differences in the perception of visual illusions are stable across eyes, time, and measurement methods

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Lukasz Grzeczkowski

Vision scientists have tried to classify illusions for more than a century. For example, some studies suggested that there is a unique common factor for all visual illusions. Other studies proposed that there are several subclasses of illusions, such as il ...

2021

Individual differences in visual (mis)perception: a multivariate statistical approach

Aline Françoise Cretenoud

Common factors are omnipresent in everyday life, e.g., people who do well in one cognitive test are likely to perform well in other cognitive tests as well, and vice versa. In vision, however, there seems to be a multitude of specific factors rather than a ...

EPFL2021

How do visual skills relate to action video game performance?

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Arthur Barakat, Oh-Hyeon Choung

It has been claimed that video gamers possess increased perceptual and cognitive skills compared to non-video gamers. Here, we examined to which extent gaming performance in CS:GO (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) correlates with visual performance.We tes ...

2021

When illusions merge

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis, Aline Françoise Cretenoud

We recently found only weak correlations between the susceptibility to various visual illusions. However, we observed strong correlations among different variants of an illusion, suggesting that the visual space of illusions includes several illusion-speci ...

2020

Perceptual grouping leads to objecthood effects in the Ebbinghaus illusion

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Einat Rashal

The Ebbinghaus illusion is argued to be a product of low-level contour interactions or a higher cognitive comparison process. We examined the effect of grouping on the illusion by manipulating objecthood, i.e., the degree to which an object is a cohesive p ...

2020

Individual differences in the Müller-Lyer and Ponzo illusions are stable across different contexts

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Lukasz Grzeczkowski

Vision scientists have attempted to classify visual illusions according to certain aspects, such as brightness or spatial features. For example, Piaget proposed that visual illusion magnitudes either decrease or increase with age. Subsequently, it was sugg ...

2020

The Individual Structure of Visual Space

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Lukasz Grzeczkowski, Albulena Jashari-Shaqiri

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2019

No Evidence for a Common Factor Underlying Visual Abilities in Healthy Older People

Michael Herzog, Aaron Michael Clarke, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Albulena Jashari-Shaqiri

The world's population is aging at an increasing rate. Even in the absence of neurodegenerative disorders, healthy aging affects perception and cognition. In the context of cognition, common factors are well established. Much less is known about common fac ...

AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC2019

Grouping and 'Objecthood' Effects in the Ebbinghaus Illusion

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Einat Rashal

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2019

Exploring the Extent in the Visual Field of the Honeycomb and Extinction Illusions

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud

There are situations in which what is perceived in central vision is different to what is perceived in the periphery, even though the stimulus display is uniform. Here, we studied two cases, known as the Extinction illusion and the Honeycomb illusion, invo ...

2019

Factors underlying visual illusions are illusion-specific but not feature-specific

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Lukasz Grzeczkowski

Common factors are ubiquitous. For example, there is a common factor, g, for intelligence. In vision, there is much weaker evidence for such common factors. For example, visual illusion magnitudes correlate only weakly with each other. Here, we investigate ...

2019

About Specific and General Factors for Visual Illusions

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Lukasz Grzeczkowski

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2019

Motor response specificity in perceptual learning and its release by double training

Michael Herzog, Fred Mast, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Lukasz Grzeczkowski

Perceptual learning is usually feature-specific. Recently, we showed that perceptual learning is even specific for the motor response type. In a three-line bisection task, participants indicated whether the central line was offset either to the left or rig ...

2019

How to classify visual illusions? The role of intellectual development

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Lukasz Grzeczkowski

2018

About specific and general factors for visual illusions

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Lukasz Grzeczkowski

Contrary to studies of audition and cognition, we previously did not find evidence for a general common factor for vision but for many very specific ones. For example, we found strong correlations between 19 versions of the Ebbinghaus illusion, which diffe ...

2018

The individual structure of visual space

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Lukasz Grzeczkowski, Albulena Jashari-Shaqiri

Common factors are ubiquitous. First, we show that, however in vision, correlations of performance in similar paradigms are low even though test-retest reliability is high. Second, one might expect that correlations increase with increasing age because of ...

2018

What is new in perceptual learning?

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Lukasz Grzeczkowski

What is new in perceptual learning? In the early days of research, specificity was the hallmark of perceptual learning; that is, improvements following training were limited to the trained stimulus features. For example, training with a stimulus improves p ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)2017

Perceptual learning is specific beyond vision and decision making

Michael Herzog, Fred Mast, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Lukasz Grzeczkowski

Perceptual learning is usually assumed to occur within sensory areas or when sensory evidence is mapped onto decisions. Subsequent procedural and motor processes, involved in most perceptual learning experiments, are thought to play no role in the learning ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2017

How many factors are there in vision?

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Lukasz Grzeczkowski

Common factors are ubiquitous in cognition, audition, and somato-sensation. Surprisingly, there seems to be no common factor in vision, i.e., visual tasks correlate very weakly with each other. Here, we show that there are likely many very specific factors ...

2017