Pascal MAMASSIAN

Researcher
Research Director
Head of Research Unit, Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs (ENS/CNRS)
Cognitive Studies
Visual perception
CNRS
Department of Cognitive Studies
Published on
23 September 2021
, updated on
11 January 2022
PascalMAMASSIAN
Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs (LSP)
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29, rue d'Ulm 75230 Paris cedex 05
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As a researcher in visual perception, I use experimental methods of behavioral studies (psychophysics), modeling (Bayesian), and neuroscience (electrophysiology).

Field of research

How do we perceive the world around us? Research in my group focuses on mid-level vision, the link between the processing of elementary features in the image and the awareness of natural scenes. Current research topics include three-dimensional perception (pictorial cues, motion cues and binocular disparities), cross-modal perception (vision-audition), temporal dynamics of perception (in particular bistable perception), probabilistic modelling of perception (Bayesian models), sequential effects in perception (from adaptation and prior statistics), and confidence judgments in our perceptual decisions.

Publications

  • Jovanovic, L., & Mamassian, P. (2020). Events are perceived earlier in peripheral vision. Current Biology, 30(21), R1299–R1300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.096
  • Balsdon, T., Wyart, V., & Mamassian, P. (2020). Confidence controls perceptual evidence accumulation. Nature Communications, 11(1), 1753–11. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15561-w
  • Gekas, N., Meso, A.I., Masson, G.S., & Mamassian, P. (2017). A normalization mechanism for estimating visual motion across speeds and scales. Current Biology, 27(10), 1514-1520. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.04.022.
  • Mamassian, P. (2016). Visual confidence. Annual Review of Vision Science, 2, 459-481. doi: 10.1146/annurev-vision-111815-114630.
  • Wexler, M., Duyck, M., and Mamassian, P. (2015). Persistent states in vision break universality and time invariance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 112(48), 14990-14995. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1508847112.

Publications de Pascal MAMASSIAN