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Professor
Michael H. Herzog
Michael Herzog in 2010
Born1964 (age 59–60)
CitizenshipGermany
Known forAgeing
Perception
Schizophrenia
Consciousness
Academic background
EducationBiology
Neuroscience
Mathematics
Alma materUniversity of Erlangen
University of Tübingen
MIT
Doctoral advisorTomaso Poggio
Manfred Fahle
Other advisorsChristof Koch
Manfred Fahle
Academic work
DisciplineNeuroscience
Sub-disciplinePsychophysics
InstitutionsEPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
Websitehttps://www.epfl.ch/labs/lpsy

Michael Herzog (born 1964) is a German neuroscientist and psychophysicist. His interdisciplinary research draws on biology, neurosciences, mathematics, and philosophy with a focus on perception. Herzog is a professor for neuroscience at the School of Life Sciences at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and head of the Laboratory of Psychophysics.[1][2]

Career

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Herzog studied mathematics, biology and philosophy at the University of Erlangen, at the University of Tübingen, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1992, he received a diploma in mathematics from the University of Tübingen for his thesis on "Automorphism groups of Hamming graphs" supervised by Christoph Hering.[3] In 1993, Herzog earned a Master's degree in philosophy from the University of Tübingen for his research with Herbert Keuth about approaches to intentionality and representation. He then joined Manfred Fahle at the University of Tübingen and Tomaso Poggio at MIT, and earned a PhD in biology for his thesis on "mathematical models and psychophysical experiments of perceptual learning".[4][5]

From 1998 to 1999, he joined the laboratory of Christof Koch at California Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow to investigating the characteristics of temporal processing and feature integration. In 1999, he went to work as a senior researcher with Manfred Fahle at the section of Human Neurobiology at the University of Bremen where he was project leader at the Center of Excellence 517 on "Neurocognition" that was funded by German Research Council (DFG).[6] In 2003 he became a professor for neurobiopsychology at the Osnabrück University for one year.[7]

In 2004, Herzog was appointed as professor for neuroscience at the Brain Mind Institute of the School of Life Sciences at EPFL and head of the Laboratory of Psychophysics.[8] In 2015, he was promoted as Full Professor at EPFL.[1]

Research

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Herzog's laboratory investigates visual information processing in humans applying psychophysical methods, TMS, EEG, and mathematical modelling. Their research focuses on feature integration, contextual modulation, time course of information processing, and perceptual learning.[9][10][11][12][13] They also perform clinical studies in schizophrenic patients and healthy older people to study visual information processing deficits.[14]

Selected works

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  • Herzog, Michael H.; Drissi-Daoudi, Leila; Doerig, Adrien (2020). "All in Good Time: Long-Lasting Postdictive Effects Reveal Discrete Perception". Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 24 (10): 826–837. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2020.07.001. hdl:2066/221896. PMID 32893140. S2CID 221472652.
  • Da Cruz, Janir Ramos; Favrod, Ophélie; Roinishvili, Maya; Chkonia, Eka; Brand, Andreas; Mohr, Christine; Figueiredo, Patrícia; Herzog, Michael H. (2020). "EEG microstates are a candidate endophenotype for schizophrenia". Nature Communications. 11 (1): 3089. Bibcode:2020NatCo..11.3089D. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-16914-1. PMC 7303216. PMID 32555168. S2CID 219730748.
  • Shaqiri, Albulena; Pilz, Karin S.; Cretenoud, Aline F.; Neumann, Konrad; Clarke, Aaron; Kunchulia, Marina; Herzog, Michael H. (2019). "No evidence for a common factor underlying visual abilities in healthy older people" (PDF). Developmental Psychology. 55 (8): 1775–1787. doi:10.1037/dev0000740. hdl:11693/53260. PMID 31192641. S2CID 189816539.
  • Grzeczkowski, Lukasz; Clarke, Aaron M.; Francis, Gregory; Mast, Fred W.; Herzog, Michael H. (2017). "About individual differences in vision". Vision Research. 141: 282–292. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2016.10.006. hdl:11693/37316. PMID 27919676. S2CID 4772980.
  • Herzog, Michael H.; Manassi, Mauro (2015). "Uncorking the bottleneck of crowding: A fresh look at object recognition". Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 1: 86–93. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2014.10.006. S2CID 18809335.

Herzog is also the author of a text book:

  • Herzog, Michael H.; Francis, Gregory; Clarke, Aaron (13 August 2019). Understanding Statistics and Experimental Design: How to Not Lie with Statistics. Springer. ISBN 9783030034993.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Strategic topics with a focus on the next performance period | ETH-Board". www.ethrat.ch. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Michael Herzog". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  3. ^ Herzog, Michael H., ed. (1992). Automorphism groups of Hamming Graphs. University of Tübingen.
  4. ^ Perceptual learning. Fahle, Manfred., Poggio, Tomaso. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-262-27246-9. OCLC 51968804.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ^ Herzog, Michael H.; Fahle, Manfred (1 February 1998). "Modeling perceptual learning: difficulties and how they can be overcome". Biological Cybernetics. 78 (2): 107–117. doi:10.1007/s004220050418. ISSN 0340-1200. PMID 9525037. S2CID 12351107.
  6. ^ Herzog, Michael H.; Koch, Christof; Fahle, Manfred (1 August 2001). "Shine-through: temporal aspects". Vision Research. 41 (18): 2337–2346. doi:10.1016/S0042-6989(01)00123-7. ISSN 0042-6989. PMID 11459591. S2CID 5066600.
  7. ^ "Michael Herzog". www.uni-bielefeld.de. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
  8. ^ "LPSY – Laboratory of Psychophysics". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  9. ^ Overney, Leila S.; Blanke, Olaf; Herzog, Michael H. (11 June 2008). Burr, David C. (ed.). "Enhanced Temporal but Not Attentional Processing in Expert Tennis Players". PLOS ONE. 3 (6): e2380. Bibcode:2008PLoSO...3.2380O. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002380. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 2398771. PMID 18545661.
  10. ^ Herzog, Michael H.; Sayim, Bilge; Chicherov, Vitaly; Manassi, Mauro (5 May 2015). "Crowding, grouping, and object recognition: A matter of appearance". Journal of Vision. 15 (6): 5. doi:10.1167/15.6.5. ISSN 1534-7362. PMC 4429926. PMID 26024452.
  11. ^ Herzog, Michael H.; Hermens, Frouke; Öğmen, Haluk (17 September 2014). "Invisibility and interpretation". Frontiers in Psychology. 5: 975. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00975. ISSN 1664-1078. PMC 4166109. PMID 25278910.
  12. ^ Rüter, Johannes; Sprekeler, Henning; Gerstner, Wulfram; Herzog, Michael H. (21 January 2013). "The Silent Period of Evidence Integration in Fast Decision Making". PLOS ONE. 8 (1): e46525. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...846525R. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046525. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3549915. PMID 23349660.
  13. ^ Herzog, Michael H.; Esfeld, Michael (June 2009). "How the mind constitutes itself through perceptual learning". Learning & Perception. 1 (1): 147–154. doi:10.1556/LP.1.2009.1.11. ISSN 1789-3186.
  14. ^ Herzog, Michael H.; Brand, Andreas (June 2015). "Visual masking & schizophrenia". Schizophrenia Research: Cognition. 2 (2): 64–71. doi:10.1016/j.scog.2015.04.001. PMC 5609636. PMID 29114454.
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