Michael Herzog (psychophysicist)

Michael H. Herzog (* 1964 ) is a German neurobiologist. He is a professor of psychophysics at the Brain and Mind Institute of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne .

Life

Michael Herzog studied mathematics, biology and philosophy at the Universities of Erlangen and Tübingen and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1992 he made his diploma in mathematics in Tübingen with a thesis on "Hamming graphs and their automorphism groups" with Christoph Hering . In 1993 he obtained a master's degree in philosophy with a research focus on "Theory of Science and Representation". In 1996 he received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen. From 1999 to 2004 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Neuro-Human Biology at the University of Bremen . There he completed his habilitation in 2002 on the subject of "Figure-Basic Segmentation and Characteristic Binding" to obtain the venia legendi in the neurobiology department.

Herzog has been Professor of Psychophysics at the Brain and Mind Institute of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne since 2004 . His research focus is on the fundamental properties of visual perception . He is particularly interested in the processes that bind different properties of an object together into a coherent object.

In addition to the methods of psychophysics, his working group mainly uses transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography to investigate perceptual learning and the influence of contextual information as well as the fusion of visual properties. He is the discoverer of the feature inheritance effect, in which the properties of a stimulus are passed on to subsequent ones (from English feature property, inherit ). Furthermore, Herzog conducts research on basic information processing disorders in schizophrenia patients .

Fonts

• Automorphism groups of Hamming Graphs (in German), Final Thesis in Mathematics, University of Tübingen 1992
• New Approaches to Intentionality and Representation (in German), Final Thesis in Philosophy, University of Tübingen 1993
• Mathematical models and experiments for perceptual learning. Dissertation, University of Tübingen 1996
• Figure-ground segmentation, feature binding, and contextual modulation investigated with the feature inheritance and the shine-through effect. (in German) Habilitation Thesis, University of Bremen 2002

Essays

• with Christof Koch: Seeing properties of an invisible object. Feature inheritance and shine-through. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . Volume 98, Issue 7, 2001, pp. 4271-4275, doi : 10.1073 / pnas.071047498 .
• with Udo Ernst, Christian W. Eurich: A camel is not a palm. In: Brain & Mind. Volume 1, Issue 1, 2002, ISSN  1618-8519 , pp. 11-13.

Web links

• Michael Herzog's website
• Literature by and about Michael Herzog in the catalog of the German National Library