Publications by Elisa Tartaglia

What to Choose Next? A Paradigm for Testing Human Sequential Decision Making

Michael Herzog, Aaron Michael Clarke, Elisa Tartaglia

Many of the decisions we make in our everyday lives are sequential and entail sparse rewards. While sequential decision-making has been extensively investigated in theory (e.g., by reinforcement learning models) there is no systematic experimental paradigm ...

Frontiers Media2017

Human and Machine Learning in Non-Markovian Decision Making

Michael Herzog, Aaron Michael Clarke, Elisa Tartaglia, Silvia Marchesotti, Walter Senn

Humans can learn under a wide variety of feedback conditions. Reinforcement learning (RL), where a series of rewarded decisions must be made, is a particularly important type of learning. Computational and behavioral studies of RL have focused mainly on Ma ...

Public Library of Science2015

Linking perceptual learning with identical stimuli to imagery perceptual learning

Michael Herzog, Lukasz Grzeczkowski, Fred Mast, Elisa Tartaglia

Perceptual learning is usually thought to be exclusively driven by the stimuli presented during training (and the underlying synaptic learning rules). In some way, we are slaves of our visual experiences. However, learning can occur even when no stimuli ar ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2015

Perceptual Learning With Only One Stimulus

Michael Herzog, Lukasz Grzeczkowski, Fred Mast, Elisa Tartaglia

Perceptual learning is learning to see. For example in a bisection task, three parallel lines are presented with the central line slightly offset towards the right or the left outer line. Participants indicate the offset direction. Training gradually impro ...

2014

Perceptual learning of motion discrimination by mental imagery

Michael Herzog, Fred Mast, Elisa Tartaglia, Laura Bamert

Perceptual learning can occur when stimuli are only imagined, i.e., without proper stimulus presentation. For example, perceptual learning improved bisection discrimination when only the two outer lines of the bisection stimulus were presented and the cent ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2012

New Percepts via Mental Imagery?

Michael Herzog, Fred Mast, Elisa Tartaglia

Frontiers Media2012

Mental imagery learning improves motion direction discrimination

Michael Herzog, Fred Mast, Elisa Tartaglia, Laura Bamert

2010

Perceptual learning through errorless training

Michael Herzog, Fred Mast, Elisa Tartaglia, Laura Bamert

2010

Perceptual learning: why mice do not play backgammon

Elisa Tartaglia

Perceptual learning is the ability to modify perception through practice. As a form of brain plasticity, perceptual learning has been studied for more than thirty years in different fields including psychology, neurophysiology and computational neuroscienc ...

EPFL2009

Modeling perceptual learning: why mice do not play backgammon

Michael Herzog, Elisa Tartaglia, Carl Kristoffer Aberg

Perceptual learning is often considered one of the simplest and basic forms of learning in general. Accordingly, it is usually modeled with simple and basic neural networks which show good results in grasping the empirical data. Simple meets simple. Comple ...

2009