Publications by Maya Anna Jastrzebowska

Population receptive field size in (un)crowding: to isolate or to combine?

Michael Herzog, Bogdan Draganski, Ayberk Ozkirli, Maya Anna Jastrzebowska

Traditional models posit that visual processing is local and feedforward. In this vein, crowding is explained to be the result of pooling of target and flanker features in early visual areas. Specifically, it has been suggested that when the target and fla ...

SAGE Publishing2021

Unraveling brain interactions in vision: the example of crowding

Michael Herzog, Vitaly Chicherov, Bogdan Draganski, Maya Anna Jastrzebowska

Crowding, the impairment of target discrimination in clutter, is the standard situation in vision. Traditionally, crowding is explained with (feedforward) models, in which only neighboring elements interact, leading to a “bottleneck” at the earliest stages ...

2021

The role of population receptive field size and recurrent processing in learning to “de-crowd”

Michael Herzog, Bogdan Draganski, Ayberk Ozkirli, Maya Anna Jastrzebowska

In crowding, the perception of a target is impeded by surrounding clutter. While traditional models are feedforward and local, there is increasing behavioral and neural evidence for a critical role of recurrent processing across the visual hierarchy in cro ...

SAGE Publishing2021

Bayesian regression explains how human participants handle parameter uncertainty

Michael Herzog, Jean-Pascal Théodor Pfister, Mattew Pachai, Maya Anna Jastrzebowska

Author summary How do humans make prediction when the critical factor that influences the quality of the prediction is hidden? Here, we address this question by conducting a simple psychophysical experiment in which participants had to extrapolate a parabo ...

2020

Bayesian modeling of brain function and behavior

Maya Anna Jastrzebowska

The application of Bayesian modeling techniques is increasingly common in neuroscience due to the coherent and principled way in which the paradigm deals with uncertainty. The Bayesian framework is particularly valuable in the context of complex, ill-posed ...

EPFL2020

Dopaminergic modulation of motor network compensatory mechanisms in Parkinson's disease

Michael Herzog, Maya Anna Jastrzebowska, Bogdan Draganski, Renaud Marquis

The dopaminergic system has a unique gating function in the initiation and execution of movements. When the interhemispheric imbalance of dopamine inherent to the healthy brain is disrupted, as in Parkinson's disease (PD), compensatory mechanisms act to st ...

Wiley2019

Dopaminergic modulation of cortical motor network lateralization

Michael Herzog, Maya Anna Jastrzebowska, Bogdan Draganski, Lester Melie Garcia, Renaud Marquis

Introduction Unilateral movements are primarily processed in contralateral cortical and subcortical areas and additionally in ipsilateral cerebellum, leading to an asymmetric pattern of neural activation. Decrease of lateralization is characteristic of agi ...

2018

Un-crowding affects cortical activation in V1 differently from LOC

Michael Herzog, Vitaly Chicherov, Bogdan Draganski, Maya Anna Jastrzebowska

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2017