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Guillaume S. Masson

Guillaume S. Masson

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Neuroscience

D-Index
37
Citations
4321
World Ranking
8866
National Ranking
422

Overview

Guillaume S. Masson is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France. Their work spans two main fields of study: Neuroscience and Medicine. Within these fields, their subfields include Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's research focuses on several interconnected topics. These include visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, retinal development and disorders, infection control and ventilation, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, neurobiology and insect physiology research, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Recent scholarly contributions by Masson include the following publications:

  • Prevention of SARS-CoV-2 transmission during a large, live, indoor gathering (SPRING): a non-inferiority, randomised, controlled trial, 2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Anticipatory responses along motion trajectories in awake monkey area V1, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Sex differences in visuomotor tracking, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • What over When in causal agency: Causal experience prioritizes outcome prediction over temporal priority, 2022, Consciousness and Cognition
  • Mammals Achieve Common Neural Coverage of Visual Scenes Using Distinct Sampling Behaviors, 2023, eNeuro

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Masson include:

  • Martin Szinte
  • Anna Montagnini
  • Laurent Perrinet
  • James Mathew
  • Frédéric Danion

Masson's publications appear often in venues such as:

  • Journal of Vision
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • eNeuro
  • Contact Lens and Anterior Eye

This body of work demonstrates consistent engagement with understanding neural and perceptual mechanisms, both from a fundamental neuroscience perspective and in applied medical contexts, including infectious disease control.

Best Publications

  • Vergence eye movements in response to binocular disparity without depth perception

    Guillaume Masson;C. Busettini;F. Miles

  • Motion perception during saccadic eye movements.

    Eric Castet;Guillaume S. Masson

  • Postural effects of motion vision in young autistic children.

    Bruno Gepner;Daniel Mestre;Guillaume Masson;Scania de Schonen

  • Dopaminergic modulation of visual sensitivity in man

    Guillaume Masson;D. Mestre;O. Blin

  • Radial optic flow induces vergence eye movements with ultra-short latencies

    C. Busettini;Guillaume Masson;F. Miles

  • Visual Perception Modifies Goal-directed Movement Control: Supporting Evidence from a Visual Perturbation Paradigm:

    Luc Proteau;Guillaume Masson

  • Dynamics of attentional deployment during saccadic programming.

    Eric Castet;Sébastien Jeanjean;Anna Montagnini;Danièle Laugier

  • Parallel motion processing for the initiation of short-latency ocular following in humans.

    Guillaume S. Masson;Eric Castet

  • Action Recognition Using a Bio-Inspired Feedforward Spiking Network

    Maria-Jose Escobar;Guillaume S. Masson;Thierry Vieville;Pierre Kornprobst

  • Motion perception of saccade-induced retinal translation

    Eric Castet;Sébastien Jeanjean;Guillaume S. Masson

  • Bio-inspired computer vision

    N. V. Kartheek Medathati;Heiko Neumann;Guillaume S. Masson;Pierre Kornprobst

  • From Following Edges to Pursuing Objects

    Guillaume S. Masson;Leland S. Stone

  • Effects of stationary and moving textured backgrounds on the visuo-oculo-manual tracking in humans

    Guillaume Masson;Luc Proteau;Daniel R. Mestre

  • A role for stereoscopic depth cues in the rapid visual stabilization of the eyes.

    C. Busettini;Guillaume Masson;F. Miles

  • Functional consequences of correlated excitatory and inhibitory conductances in cortical networks

    Jens Kremkow;Laurent U. Perrinet;Guillaume S. Masson;Ad Aertsen

  • More is not always better: adaptive gain control explains dissociation between perception and action

    Claudio Simoncini;Laurent U Perrinet;Anna Montagnini;Pascal Mamassian

  • Temporal dynamics of motion integration for the initiation of tracking eye movements at ultra-short latencies.

    Guillaume S. Masson;Yves Rybarczyk;Eric Castet;Daniel R. Mestre

  • Dynamics of Local Input Normalization Result from Balanced Short- and Long-Range Intracortical Interactions in Area V1

    Alexandre Reynaud;Guillaume S. Masson;Frédéric Chavane

  • Apomorphine-induced yawning in migraine patients: enhanced responsiveness.

    Olivier Blin;Jean-Philippe Azulay;Guillaume Masson;Geneviève Aubrespy

  • Short-latency ocular following in humans: sensitivity to binocular disparity.

    Guillaume Masson;C Busettini;C Busettini;D.-S Yang;F.A Miles

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascal Mamassian
Pascal Mamassian École Normale Supérieure
Frederick A. Miles
Frederick A. Miles National Institutes of Health
Ad Aertsen
Ad Aertsen University of Freiburg
Christine Deruelle
Christine Deruelle Aix-Marseille University
Anders Lansner
Anders Lansner Royal Institute of Technology
Yves Frégnac
Yves Frégnac Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Amiram Grinvald
Amiram Grinvald Weizmann Institute of Science
Christian G. Bénar
Christian G. Bénar Aix-Marseille University
Philippe Lefèvre
Philippe Lefèvre Université Catholique de Louvain
Christine Assaiante
Christine Assaiante Aix-Marseille University

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