Publications by 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

Michael Herzog, Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, 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