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First-person experience cannot rescue causal structure theories from the unfolding argument

Michael Herzog, Adrien Christophe Doerig, Aaron Schurger

We recently put forward an argument, the Unfolding Argument (UA), that integrated information theory (IIT) and other causal structure theories are either already falsified or unfalsifiable, which provoked significant criticism. It seems that we and the cri ...

Elsevier2022

Cognitive markers as potential endophenotypes for schizophrenia

Michael Herzog, Maya Roinishvili

Schizophrenia is a heterogeneous disease strongly influenced by genetic predisposition. A large variety of candidate genes has been identified of which each gene, however, explains only a small proportion of the genetic risk. For this reason, stable marker ...

2016

Patients with functional psychoses show similar visual backward masking deficits

Michael Herzog, Maya Roinishvili

Recent genetic, behavioral, and clinical studies suggest that functional psychoses (schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder), previously thought to be distinct from each other, may belong to one continuum. The shine-through masking paradi ...

Elsevier2012

The effects of aging on perception and cognition

Michael Herzog, Aaron Michael Clarke, Albulena Jashari-Shaqiri, Daniela Herzig

The developed world is aging faster than ever before. Even in the absence of neurodegenerative disease, aging affects all kinds of human functions including perception and cognition. In most perceptual studies, one paradigm is tested and it is usually foun ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2015

Perception of visual illusions is intact in schizophrenia

Michael Herzog, Maya Roinishvili, Lukasz Grzeczkowski, Albulena Jashari-Shaqiri

There seems to be no common factor for visual perception because performance levels in many visual tasks correlate only weakly with each other. Similar results were found with visual illusions. However, one may expect common visual factors for individuals ...

2018

How alcohol intake affects visual temporal processing

Michael Herzog

Alcohol affects vision. However, the influence of alcohol on visual processing is largely unknown. Here, we investigated the effects of alcohol on visual spatiotemporal processing. We employed a visual paradigm, the shine through backward masking paradigm, ...

Elsevier2012

Investigating the relationship between subjective perception and unconscious feature integration

Michael Herzog, Leila Drissi Daoudi - Kleinbauer, Lukas Vogelsang, Maëlan Quentin Menétrey

Visual features need to be temporally integrated to detect motion signals and solve the many ill-posed problems of vision. It has previously been shown that such integration occurs in windows of unconscious processing of up to 450 milliseconds. However, wh ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2024

How do visual skills relate to action video game performance?

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

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 ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2021

Perceptual learning in a nonretinotopic frame of reference

Michael Herzog

Perceptual learning is the ability to improve perception through practice. Perceptual learning is usually specific for the task and features learned. For example, improvements in performance for a certain stimulus do not transfer if the stimulus is rotated ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Neural Dynamics of Grouping and Segmentation Explain Properties of Visual Crowding

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis, Mauro Manassi

Investigations of visual crowding, where a target is difficult to identify because of flanking elements, has largely used a theoretical perspective based on local interactions where flanking elements pool with or substitute for properties of the target. Th ...

American Psychological Association2017

Quantifying target conspicuity in contextual modulation by visual search

Michael Herzog

Contextual elements can strongly modulate visual performance. For example, performance deteriorates when a vernier is flanked by neighboring lines. On a neural level, such contextual modulation is often explained by local spatial interactions such as later ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)2011

When transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) modulates feature integration

Michael Herzog, Johannes Rüter

How the brain integrates visual information across time into coherent percepts is an open question. Here, we presented two verniers with opposite offset directions one after the other. A vernier consists of two vertical bars that are horizontally offset. W ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Visual backward masking in siblings of schizophrenia patients: evidence for a compensation mechanism

Michael Herzog, Maya Roinishvili, Patricia Figueiredo, Janir Nuno Ramos Antunes Da Cruz

Visual backward masking (VBM) is a very sensitive endophenotype of schizophrenia. Masking deficits are highly correlated with reduced EEG amplitudes. In VBM, a target stimulus is followed by a mask, which decreases performance on the target. Here, we inves ...

2017

Alpha7 subunit of the nicotinergic acethylcholine receptor gene (CHRNA7) and perception of coherent motion in aging

Michael Herzog

Genetic variations of the alpha7 subunit of the nicotinergic acetylcholine receptor gene (CHRNA7) are linked to cognitive deficits in aging and schizophrenia. However, little is known about associations of the CHRNA7 gene with aged-related decline in visua ...

2016

To what extent do cataracts and cataract surgery change perception?

Michael Herzog, Simona Adele Garobbio

Cataract surgery is the most commonly performed surgical procedure worldwide and is typically associated with an improvement in visual acuity (VA). This study aimed to examine how various visual functions, beyond VA and contrast sensitivity, are affected b ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)2025

Temporal windows of unconscious processing cannot easily be disrupted

Michael Herzog, Leila Drissi Daoudi - Kleinbauer, Lukas Vogelsang

Conscious perception is preceded by long periods of unconscious processing. These periods are crucial for analyzing temporal information and for solving the many ill-posed problems of vision. An important question is what starts and ends these windows and ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)2024

Modeling perceptual learning: why mice do not play backgammon

Michael Herzog, 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

Associations between genetic variations and global motion perception

Michael Herzog

The cholinergic system is known to strongly modulate perceptual and cognitive processes, and the alpha7 subunit of the cholinergic nicotinic receptor (CHRNA7) is broadly expressed within the visual system. Here, we assessed whether genetic variations of CH ...

2019

Visual masking deficits in schizophrenia: A view into the genetics of the disease through an endophenotype

Michael Herzog, Jacques Fellay, Maya Roinishvili, Flavia Aurelia Shoko Hodel

Schizophrenia is a chronic disorder determined by a complex mix of genetic and environmental factors. To better understand the contributions of human genetic variation to schizophrenia, we performed a genome-wide association study of a validated endophenot ...

2018

Invisibility and interpretation

Michael Herzog

Invisibility is often thought to occur because of the low-level limitations of the visual system. For example, it is often assumed that backward masking renders a target invisible because the visual system is simply too slow to resolve the target and the m ...

Frontiers Media2014