Michael Herzog
Experimental psychologist whose group showed that the first encounter with an ambiguous image largely fixes what you see in it.
Who they are
Herzog's laboratory had already found that initial exposure biases the dress percept in the manner of one-shot learning. The later work extended the question to a second ambiguous photograph, of a shoe, and tracked observers over time.
The occluder manipulation is the part that unsettles people.
Key papers
Drissi-Daoudi, L., Doerig, A., Parkosadze, K., Kunchulia, M., & Herzog, M. H. (2020). How stable is perception in #TheDress and #TheShoe? Vision Research, 169, 1-5.
Key ideas
One-shot learning of the percept extends from the dress to the shoe.
Hiding large parts of the image biased what observers saw, and when the occluders were removed the percept did not change for most of them.
Tracked over fourteen days, some observers experienced switches and the percept was largely stable for the majority.
Concepts on this site
Sources
- doi:10.1016/j.visres.2020.01.007