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

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Aaron Michael Clarke

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

When illusions merge

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud

Recently, we found very weak correlations between the magnitudes of visual illusions. However, we found strong correlations between 19 variants of the Ebbinghaus illusion which differed in color, shape or texture, suggesting that different illusions make u ...

2019

About specific and general factors for visual illusions

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Gregory Francis, 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

Grouping and “objecthood” effects in the Ebbinghaus illusion

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Einat Rashal

We examined the effect of grouping processes on the Ebbinghaus illusion by manipulating objecthood: the degree to which an object is perceived as a cohesive entity. We presented observers with squares as targets and inducers and manipulated the degree of t ...

2018

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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

The effect of “objecthood” in the Ebbinghaus illusion

Michael Herzog, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Einat Rashal

In the Ebbinghaus illusion, observers overestimate the size of a target when it is surrounded by large flakers and compared with a control target surrounded by small flankers. We examined whether “objecthood” – the degree to which an object is a cohesive e ...

2017

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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

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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, Aline Françoise Cretenoud, Gregory Francis, 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