Research — Michael Karlovich

Research

My research is about attention, cognition, and neurodegeneration: how the brain assembles a coherent reality, and how that process fails. The published work spans visual perception, attention, and clinical neurology, in PNAS, Neurology, i-Perception, and Frontiers in Psychology.

Publications

Peer-reviewed & preprint

The visible gorilla: Unexpected fast, not physically salient, objects are noticeable PNAS 2023

Wallisch P, Mackey WE, Karlovich MW, Heeger DJ

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 120(22):e2214930120 (2023) · doi:10.1073/pnas.2214930120

Scintillating Starbursts: Concentric Star Polygons Induce Illusory Ray Patterns

Karlovich MW, Wallisch P

i-Perception (2021) · doi:10.1177/20416695211018720

Disagreeing about Crocs and socks: Creating profoundly ambiguous color displays

Wallisch P, Karlovich M

Frontiers in Psychology (accepted) · arXiv:1908.05736

Temporal trends and autopsy findings of SUDEP based on medico-legal investigations

Cihan E, Devinsky O, Hesdorffer DC, Brandsoy M, Li L, Fowler DR, Graham JK, Karlovich MW, Yang JE, Keller AE, Donner EJ, Friedman D

Neurology 95(7):e867–e877 (2020)

Socioeconomic disparities in SUDEP in the US

Cihan E, Hesdorffer DC, Brandsoy M, Li L, Fowler DR, Graham JK, Karlovich M, Donner EJ, Devinsky O, Friedman D

Neurology 94(24):e2555–e2566 (2020)

Lorcaserin therapy for severe epilepsy of childhood onset: A case series

Tolete P, Knupp K, Karlovich M, DeCarlo E, Bluvstein J, Conway E, Friedman D, Dugan P, Devinsky O

Neurology 91(18):837–839 (2018)

Illusions

Three that traveled

Work that found an audience beyond the journals.

Scintillating Starburst

A new class of illusion. Concentric star polygons induce vivid illusory rays. Finalist, 2020 Illusion of the Year.

Crocs & Socks

Ambiguous color displays that split viewers, in the tradition of "The Dress."

The Visible Gorilla

Across roughly 4,500 observers, fast motion overrides attention. Fast objects get noticed, attended to or not.

Recognition. Top 5% of research outputs tracked by Altmetric · Finalist, 2020 International Illusion of the Year · Cover of Neurology®, June 2020.

Publication records for the PNAS and Neurology papers verified against PubMed.