Biography
I use psychophysical methods and computational modelling (including neural networks) to examine human cognition, specifically how we see and categorize objects. I participate in the Sectorplan SSH-Breed.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Assistant professor | Brain & Cognition
- morgenstern@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Kira Isabel Dehn, Guido Maiello, Frieder Tom Hartmann, Yaniv Morgenstern, Sara Joy Hawkins, Thomas Offner, Joshua Walter, Thomas Hassenklöver, Ivan Manzini & Roland W. Fleming (2025) - Human shape perception spontaneously discovers the biological origin of novel, but natural, stimuli - Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 22 (226) - doi: 10.1098/rsif.2024.0931 - [link]
- Yaniv Morgenstern, Katherine R. Storrs, Filipp Schmidt, Frieder Hartmann, Henning Tiedemann, Johan Wagemans & Roland W. Fleming (2024) - High-level aftereffects reveal the role of statistical features in visual shape encoding - Current Biology, 34 (5), 1098-1106.e5 - doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.039 - [link]
- Filipp Schmidt, Henning Tiedemann, Roland W. Fleming & Yaniv Morgenstern (2023) - Inferring shape transformations in a drawing task - Memory and Cognition, 53 (1), 189-199 - doi: 10.3758/s13421-023-01452-0 - [link]
- Arash Akbarinia, Yaniv Morgenstern & Karl R. Gegenfurtner (2023) - Contrast sensitivity function in deep networks - Neural Networks, 164, 228-244 - doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2023.04.032 - [link]
- Emma E.M. Stewart, Frieder T. Hartmann, Yaniv Morgenstern, Katherine R. Storrs, Guido Maiello & Roland W. Fleming (2022) - Mental object rotation based on two-dimensional visual representations - Current Biology, 32 (21), R1224-R1225 - doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.09.036 - [link]
- Henning Tiedemann, Yaniv Morgenstern, Filipp Schmidt & Roland W. Fleming (2022) - One-shot generalization in humans revealed through a drawing task - eLife, 11 - doi: 10.7554/eLife.75485 - [link]
- Yaniv Morgenstern, Frieder Hartmann, Filipp Schmidt, Henning Tiedemann, Eugen Prokott, Guido Maiello & Roland W. Fleming (2021) - An image-computable model of human visual shape similarity - PLoS Computational Biology, 17 (6) - doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008981 - [link]
- Filipp Schmidt, Jasmin Kleis, Yaniv Morgenstern & Roland W. Fleming (2020) - The role of semantics in the perceptual organization of shape - Scientific Reports, 10 (1) - doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-79072-w - [link]
- Yaniv Morgenstern, Filipp Schmidt & Roland W. Fleming (2020) - A dataset for evaluating one-shot categorization of novel object classes - Data in Brief, 29 - doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.105302 - [link]
- Yaniv Morgenstern, Filipp Schmidt & Roland W. Fleming (2019) - One-shot categorization of novel object classes in humans - Vision Research, 165, 98-108 - doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2019.09.005 - [link]
- Harun Karimpur, Yaniv Morgenstern & Katja Fiehler (2019) - Facilitation of allocentric coding by virtue of object-semantics - Scientific Reports, 9 (1) - doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-42735-4 - [link]
- Yaniv Morgenstern & Daniel J. Kersten (2017) - The perceptual dimensions of natural dynamic flow - Journal of Vision, 17 (12) - doi: 10.1167/17.12.7 - [link]
- Dale Purves, Yaniv Morgenstern & William T. Wojtach (2015) - Perception and reality: Why a wholly empirical paradigm is needed to understand vision - Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 9 (November) - doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00156 - [link]
- Dale Purves, Yaniv Morgenstern & William T. Wojtach (2015) - Will understanding vision require a wholly empirical paradigm? - Frontiers in Psychology, 6 - doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01072 - [link]
- Yaniv Morgenstern, Wilson S. Geisler & Richard F. Murray (2015) - The role of natural lighting diffuseness in human visual perception - doi: 10.1117/12.2086258 - [link]
- Yaniv Morgenstern, Dhara V. Rukmini, Brian B. Monson & Dale Purves (2014) - Properties of artificial neurons that report lightness based on accumulated experience with luminance - Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 8, 1-11 - doi: 10.3389/fncom.2014.00134 - [link]
- Yaniv Morgenstern, Wilson S. Geisler & Richard F. Murray (2014) - Human vision is attuned to the diffuseness of natural light - Journal of Vision, 14 (9) - doi: 10.1167/14.9.15 - [link]
- Yaniv Morgenstern, Mohammad Rostami & Dale Purves (2014) - Properties of artificial networks evolved to contend with natural spectra - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 (3), 10868-10872 - doi: 10.1073/pnas.1402669111 - [link]
4.3 Programming Experiments
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- ESSB-MP1020
4.1 Practical Data Science
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- ESSB-MP6020
2.4 Brain and Perception
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- ESSB-P2120B
3.3 Data Processing and Analysis in R
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- ESSB-P3040B
Research Trainee Programme
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- ESSB-RTP
2.2.2C Perception
- Year
- 2026
- Course Code
- FSWP2-040-A
