Mentors: Prof. Pawan Sinha (MIT) and Prof. Charles Nelson (Harvard Medical School).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
4/2024 – today
Ph.D. thesis supervisor: Prof. Michael Herzog.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
9/2019 – 3/2024
GPA: 5.8/6.0. M.Sc. thesis supervisor: Prof. Klaas Enno Stephan.
University of Zurich & ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
9/2017 – 8/2019
Research and B.Sc. thesis supervisor abroad: Prof. Pawan Sinha.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
9/2016 – 8/2017
GPA: 1.0/1.0. B.Sc. thesis supervisor in Osnabrueck: Prof. Gordon Pipa.
University of Osnabrueck (Germany)
10/2014 – 7/2017
Sinha, P., Vogelsang, L., Vogelsang, M., Yonas, A., & Diamond, S. (In press). The temporal scaffolding of sensory organization. Annual Review of Psychology.
Vogelsang, M., Vogelsang, L., Pipa, G., Diamond, S., & Sinha, P. (2025). Potential role of developmental experience in the emergence of the parvo-magno distinction. Communications Biology. [Paper]
Vogelsang, L.*, Gupta, P.*, Vogelsang, M., Shah, P., Tiwari, K., Verma, D., Yadav, M., Raja, S., Ganesh, S., & Sinha, P. (2025). The status of vernier acuity following late sight onset. Developmental Science. [Paper]
Vogelsang, L., Menetrey, M., Drissi-Daoudi, L., & Herzog, M. (2024). Investigating the relationship between subjective perception and unconscious feature integration. Journal of Vision. [Paper]
Gupta, P., Vogelsang, M., Vogelsang, L., Shah, P., Gilad-Gutnick, S., & Sinha, P. (2024). The influence of semantics on long-term visual memory capacity in children and adults. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. [Paper]
Vogelsang, M.*, Vogelsang, L.*, Gupta, P.*, Gandhi, T., Shah, P., Swami, P., Gilad-Gutnick, S., Ben-Ami, S., Diamond, S., Ganesh, S., & Sinha, P. (2024). Impact of early visual experience on later usage of color cues. Science. [Paper]
Vogelsang, L., Drissi-Daoudi, L., & Herzog, M. (2024). Unconscious windows of processing cannot easily be disrupted. Journal of Vision. [Paper]
Vogelsang, L.*, Vogelsang, M.*, Pipa, G., Diamond, S., & Sinha, P. (2024). Butterfly effects in perceptual development: A review of the 'adaptive initial degradation' hypothesis. Developmental Review. [Paper]
Vogelsang, L., Drissi-Daoudi, L., & Herzog, M. (2023). Processing load, and not stimulus evidence, determines the duration of unconscious visual feature integration. Communications Psychology. [Paper]
Jarudi, I., Braun, A., Vogelsang, M., Vogelsang, L., Gilad-Gutnick, S., Boix, X., Dixon, W., & Sinha, P. (2023). Recognizing Distant Faces. Vision Research. [Paper]
Bi, S.°, Charwariya, A.°, Gupta, P.°, Huang, Y.°, Jazayeri, K.°, Kumar, R.°, Ralekar, C.°, Singh, C.°, Tiwary, A.°, Vogelsang, L.°, Vogelsang, M.°, Yadav, M.°, & Sinha, P. (2023). Scholastic Status of Congenitally Blind Children Following Sight Surgery. International Journal of Special Education. [Paper]
Vogelsang, M.*, Vogelsang, L.*, Diamond, S., & Sinha, P. (2022). Prenatal auditory experience and its sequelae. Developmental Science. [Paper]
Gupta, P., Shah, P., Gilad-Gutnick, S., Vogelsang, M., Vogelsang, L., Tiwari, K., Gandhi, T., Ganesh, S., & Sinha, P. (2022). Development of visual memory capacity following early-onset and extended blindness. Psychological Science. [Paper]
Menetrey, M., Vogelsang, L., & Herzog, M.H. (2021). Do brain waves provide evidence for discrete perception? Proposed criteria. European Journal of Neuroscience. [Paper]
Appel, K.°, Füllhase, S.°, Kern, S.°, Kleinschmidt, A.°, Laukemper, A.°, Lüth, K.°, Steinmetz, L.°, & Vogelsang, L.°. (2020). Inducing signal-verified lucid dreams in 40% of untrained novice lucid dreamers within two nights in a sleep laboratory setting. Consciousness and Cognition. [Paper]
Vogelsang, L.*, Gilad-Gutnick, S.*, Ehrenberg, E., Yonas, A., Diamond, S., Held, R., & Sinha, P. (2018). Potential downside of high initial visual acuity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [Paper]
Vogelsang, L., Anold, S., Schormann, J., Wübbelmann, S., & Schredl, M. (2016). The continuity between waking-life musical activities and music dreams. Dreaming. [Paper]
Vogelsang, L., Gilad-Gutnick, S., Diamond, S., Yonas, A., & Sinha, P. (2019). Response to Katzhendler and Weinshall: Initial visual degradation during development may be adaptive. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [Response]
Sinha, P., Gupta, P., Vogelsang, L., & Diamond, S. (Accepted). Visual Neuroplasticity: A few knowns and several unknowns. In: Oxford University Press Handbook of Perceptual Development.
Vogelsang, L. & Sinha, P. (2023). Modeling Vision. In: Cambridge Handbook for Computational Cognitive Science, Cambridge University Press. [Chapter]
Vogelsang, L., Vogelsang, M., Gupta, P., Shah, P., Sethi, P., Narang, S., Ganesh, S., & Sinha, P. (2025). Gestalt processing in late-sighted children and deep neural networks. Poster at Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [Conference paper]
Vogelsang, M., Vogelsang, L., & Sinha, P. (2025). Examining the potential functional significance of initially poor temporal acuity. Talk at Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [Conference paper]
Vogelsang, M.*, Vogelsang, L.*, Pipa, G., Diamond, S., & Sinha, P. (2024). Impact of a biomimetic training regimen based on early visual experience on neural network organization and performance. Poster at NeurIPS 2024 Workshop on Behavioral Machine Learning, Vancouver, Canada. [Conference paper]
Vogelsang, L.*, Vogelsang, M.*, Pipa, G., Diamond, S., & Sinha, P. (2024). An account of the genesis of the parvo- and magnocellular division based on early visual experience. Poster at Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Boston, USA. [Conference paper]
Vogelsang, L.*, Weber, L.*, Tomiello, S., Schoebi, D., Wellstein, K., Iglesias, S., Stephan, K.E. (2019). Fitting a computational model of perceptual inference to principal component weights of ERP responses. Poster at Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany. [Conference paper]
Vogelsang, L., Vogelsang, M., Gupta, P., Shah, P., Sethi, P., Narang, S., Ganesh, S., & Sinha, P. (2025). Gestalt processing deficits in children treated for early-onset blindness late in life. Talk at European Conference on Visual Perception, Mainz, Germany.
Vogelsang, L., Gupta, P., Vogelsang, M., Lall, N., Jain, M., Ralekar, C., Ganesh, S., & Sinha, P. (2025). The role of early experience in judging the temporal order of visual events: insights from late-sighted children. Poster at Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, San Francisco, USA (hybrid).
Vogelsang, L., Vogelsang, M., Diamond, S., & Sinha, P. (2025). From degraded vision to robust sensory cognition: experimental and computational insights from human development. Talk at Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for Cognitive Psychology, Kyoto, Japan.
Vogelsang, L., Vogelsang, M., Diamond, S., & Sinha, P. (2025). A NeuroAI approach to human development. Talk at Mathematical Neuroscience Mini-Conference, Society for Mathematical Biology, Online.
Vogelsang, L., Vogelsang, M., Diamond, S., & Sinha, P. (2025). Developmental NeuroAI: On the importance of early degradations for humans and machines. Talk at Conference on Exploring Interdisciplinary Frontiers, University of Cambridge, UK (Hybrid).
Vogelsang, L., Gupta, P., Vogelsang, M., Lall, N., Ralekar, C., Ganesh, S., & Sinha, P. (2025). Resilience of temporal order judgement to congenital blindness. Poster at Trends in Psychology Summit, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
Vogelsang, L.*, Vogelsang, M.*, Gupta, P., Pipa, G., Diamond, S., & Sinha, P. (2024). What curing blind children teaches us about early visual development. Poster at MIT Life Sciences & Health Symposium, Cambridge, USA.
Vogelsang, L.*, Vogelsang, M.*, Gupta, P., Pipa, G., Diamond, S., & Sinha, P. (2024). What curing blind children teaches us about the mechanisms of early visual development. Flash talk and poster at Annual Japan-US Science Forum, Cambridge, USA.
Vogelsang, L., Gupta, P., Vogelsang, M., Lall, N., Ralekar, C., Ganesh, S., & Sinha, P. (2024). Resilience of non-simultaneity detection to early-onset, prolonged visual deprivation. Talk at Object Perception, Attention, & Memory (OPAM) Conference, New York City, USA.
Vogelsang, L., Vogelsang, M., Pipa, G., Diamond, S., & Sinha, P. (2024). On the potential clinical significance of initially degraded sensory experience during early development. Poster at Rosamund Stone Zander Translational Neuroscience Center Symposium, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
Vogelsang, L., Vogelsang, M., Pipa, G., Diamond, S., & Sinha, P. (2024). Commencing visual development with initially degraded inputs may have adaptive value. Talk at Virtual Systems Vision Science Symposium 2024, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, Online.
Vogelsang, L., Drissi-Daoudi, L., & Herzog, M. (2021). What determines the duration of unconscious feature integration? Poster at European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Online.
Vogelsang, M.*, Vogelsang, L.*, Diamond, S., & Sinha, P. (2021) Prenatal auditory experience in humans and its potential implications for machines. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop "Generalization beyond the training distribution in minds and machines", Online.
Vogelsang, L., Drissi-Daoudi, L., & Herzog, M. (2021). What determines the duration of unconscious feature integration? Poster at Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Meeting, Online.
Vogelsang, L.*, Weber, L.*, Tomiello, S., Schoebi, D., Wellstein, K., Iglesias, S., Stephan, K.E. (2019). Fitting a computational model of perceptual inference to principal component weights of ERP responses. Poster at Bernstein Conference, Berlin, Germany.
Vogelsang, L., Gilad-Gutnick, S., & Sinha, P. (2017). From understanding human visual development to improving convolutional neural networks. Poster at European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Berlin, Germany.
Vogelsang, L., Ehrenberg, E., Gilad-Gutnick, S., & Sinha, P. (2017). Potential downside of high initial visual acuity - a computational investigation. Talk at Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Meeting, St. Pete Beach, USA.