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I am a computer scientist and a neuroscientist. I work at the intersection of Neuroscience and AI. News 03/2025: We are presenting at Cosyne 2025 in Mont-Tremblant, Montreal,
Canada Wang Z., Zhang X., Massot
C., Rockwell H., Papandreou G., Yuille A., Lee T-S, Cue-invariant
geometric structure of the population codes in macaque V1 and V2, Cosyne,
Mont-Tremblant, Montreal, Canada, 2025. Won
Best Poster Prize awarded by PRX Life 06/2020: I was awarded the 2020 Center for Neural
Basis of Cognition Outstanding Paper Award (Strick Prize) for the paper “Sensorimotor
transformation elicits systematic patterns of activity along the dorsoventral
extent of the superior colliculus in the macaque monkey” published in
Nature Communications Biology. 08/2019: Our
Paper ‘Sensorimotor
transformation elicits systematic patterns of activity along the dorsoventral
extent of the superior colliculus in the macaque monkey’ has been
published in Communications Biology (Nature). Paper Short bio I did my PhD in Computer and Cognitive Science at
the Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble,
France. I implemented a biologically-motivated model of the primary visual
cortex for 3D perception from texture and conducted behavioral experiment in
psychophysics. I transitioned to Neuroscience to study the vestibular system
at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, where I conducted neurophysiological
experiments. I studied the non-linear properties of sensory processing by
vestibular-only neurons in the vestibular nuclei. I transitioned to the study
of the visual system at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. I
conducted experiments in the primary visual cortex (V1/V2) using
multi-channels linear probes. I studied hierarchical processing of the visual
information. I transitioned to the study of the sensorimotor transformation
in the oculomotor system at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA. I
studied properties of the structure-to-function in the Superior Colliculus
during saccadic eye movements using linear probes. My current research
projects involve neural reinforcement
learning and artificial
intelligence. Education PhD in Cognitive Sciences (Computer Vision, Visual
Psychophysics) Master in Cognitive Sciences Bachelor in Mathematics and Theoretical Computer
Science Awards 06/2020: I was awarded the 2020 Center for Neural
Basis of Cognition Outstanding Paper Award (Strick Prize) for the paper “Sensorimotor
transformation elicits systematic patterns of activity along the dorsoventral
extent of the superior colliculus in the macaque monkey” published in
Nature Communications Biology. Past and current research interests
Publications Journal papers: 9- Massot C., Zhang, X., Wang, ZT.,
Rockwell, H., Papandreou G., Yuille, A. & TS Lee. Cue-invariant Coding of
Edge Stimuli in Macaque Early Visual Cortex, in preparation, 2024. 8- Bourelly C., Massot C. & Gandhi N.J., Rapid input-output
transformation between local field potential and spiking activity during the
sensation but not action in the superior colliculus, Journal of Neuroscience,
2023. Link 7- Massot
C., Jagadisan U.K. & Gandhi N.J., Sensorimotor
transformation elicits systematic patterns of activity along the dorsoventral
extent of the superior colliculus in the macaque monkey,
Communications Biology, 2019. Link 6- Massot C., Schneider D. A., Chacron
M. & Cullen E. K., The Vestibular System Implement a Linear-NonLinear
Transformation in order to Encode Self-Motion, Plos Biology, 2012. Link 5- Massot C., Chacron M. & Cullen E.
K., Information Transmission and Detection Thresholds in the Vestibular
Nuclei: Single Neurons versus
Population Encoding, Journal of Neurophysiology, 2011. Link 4- Cullen E. K.,
Brooks J.X., Jamali M, Carriot J. & Massot
C., Internal Models of Self Motion: Computations that Suppress Vestibular
Reafference in Early Vestibular Processing, Experimental Brain Research,
2010. Link 3- Van Horn R. M.,
Mitchell E. D. Massot C. &
Cullen E. K., Local Field Potentials Dynamically Encode Behaviorally Relevant
Information That Is Not Available in Spike Trains Alone, Journal of
Neuroscience, 2010. Link 2- Massot C. & Hérault J., Model of
Frequency Analysis in the Visual Cortex and the Shape from Texture Problem,
International Journal of Computer Vision, 76(2), 2008. Link 1- Massot C. & Hérault J.,
Extraction de la Forme et de la Perspective dans des Textures Artificielles
et Naturelles par Modèles Corticaux, Revue Traitement du Signal, 23, 2006 (selected among best papers for publication
at GRETSI 2005). Link Conferences: 23- Wang Z., Zhang
X., Massot C., Rockwell H., Papandreou G., Yuille A., Lee T-S,
Cue-invariant geometric structure of the population codes in macaque V1 and
V2, Cosyne, Mont-Tremblant, Canada, 2025. Won
Best Poster Prize awarded by PRX Life 22- Alikaya A.,
Kerkhoff W., Massot C., Rothenhoefer K. & Stauffer W. R.,
Ambiguity aversion is a persistent feature of non-human primate behavior,
Society for Neuroscience (SFN), Washington D.C., USA, 2023. 21- Massot C.,
Exploration of the functional role of recurrent connectivity between dopamine
neurons in VTA with a recurrent neural network, Society for Neuroscience
(SFN), San Diego, USA, 2022. 20- Rothenhoefer
K.M., Alikaya A., Massot C. & Stauffer W.R., Ambiguity Attitude
are Dependent on Reward Magnitude, Society for Neuroscience (SFN), San Diego,
USA, 2022. 19- Massot C.,
Zhang X., Rockwell H., Papandreou G., Yuille A., Lee T-S, Coding of pattern
complexity in V1 and V2 neurons, Cosyne, remote conference, 2021. 18- Massot C., External
Inputs and Intrinsic dynamics of the Superior Colliculus Revealed by Local
Field Potentials, Nanosymposium Dynamic Signal Integration Across
Saccades (talk), Society for Neuroscience (SFN), Chicago, USA, 2019. 17-
Massot C., Jagadisan U. K. &
Gandhi J. N., Functional
Organization of the Pre-saccadic Neural Activity in the Superior Colliculus, Nanosymposium Vision and Eye Movements (talk),
Society for Neuroscience (SFN), San Diego D.C., USA, 2018. 16-
Massot C., Jagadisan U. K. &
Gandhi J. N., Measure of Visual
Onset Latency Across Depths in the Superior Colliculus, Society for Neuroscience (SFN), Washington D.C.,
USA, 2017. 15- Massot C.,
Jagadisan U. K. & Gandhi J. N., Laminar
Analysis of Neural Activity in the Superior Colliculus, Gordon Research
Conference (GRC/GRS), Bates College, USA, 2017. 14- Massot C.,
Jagadisan U. K. & Gandhi J. N., Insights
into Sensorimotor Transformation in the Superior Colliculus through
Current-Source Density Analysis, Society for Neuroscience (SFN), San Diego, USA,
2016. 13- Jagadisan U. K., Massot C. & Gandhi J. N., Laminar
Analysis of the Superior Colliculus, Society for Neuroscience (SFN), Chicago, USA,
2015. 12- Massot C.
& Lee T.S., Sensitivity to the
Gradient of Spatial Frequency in the Early Visual Cortex, Society for
Neuroscience (SFN), Washington D.C., USA, 2014. 11- Massot C. & Lee T.S., Sparse and Distributed
Representation of Edge Concepts in V1 and V2 Neuronal Populations, Society for
Neuroscience (SFN), Washington D.C., USA, 2014. 10- Massot C.
& Lee T.S., Sensitivity
to Spatial Frequency Chirp in the Early Visual Cortex, Vision Sciences
Society (VSS), St Pete Beach, USA, 2014. 9- Massot C.
& Lee T.S., Sensitivity
of Early Visual Cortical Neurons to Edge Visual Concepts, Vision Sciences
Society (VSS), St Pete Beach, USA, 2014. 8- Massot C., Chacron M. & Cullen
K.E., Information Processing in the Vestibular system: a Population Study,
Society for Neuroscience (SFN), San Diego, USA, 2010. 7- Massot C., Chacron M. & Cullen
K.E., Event detection in the Vestibular system: Detection Thresholds of
Central and Afferent Neurons, Society for Neuroscience (SFN), Chicago, USA,
2009. 6- Massot C., Chacron M. & Cullen
K.E., Event detection in the Vestibular system: Central VS Afferent Neurons
Canadian Physiological Society (CPS), Quebec, Canada, 2009 5- Massot C., Mamassian P. & Hérault
J., 3D Shape Perception from Texture: Psychophysical Experiments and
Computational Modeling, meeting at Center for Visual Science (CVS),
Rochester, USA, 2008 4- Massot C., Chacron M. & Cullen
K.E., Information transmission in the vestibular system, Society for
Neuroscience (SFN), Washington D.C., 2008 3- Massot C., Chacron M. & Cullen
K.E., Information Transmission in the Vestibular System: Central versus
Afferent Neurons Canadian Neuroscience Society (CAN), Montréal, Canada, 2008 2- Massot C. & Cullen K.E.,
Biological Model of Shape from Texture Analysis, Canadian Physiological
Society (CPS), Mont Saint-Anne, Canada, 2007 1- Massot C., Mamassian P. &
Hérault J., Analysis of the combination of frequency and orientation cue in
texture orientation perception. European Conference on Visual Perception
(ECVP), ACoruna, Spain,2005. Peer-reviewed Proceedings and Lecture Notes in Computer Science: 3- Massot C. & Hérault J.,
Recovering the Shape from Texture Using Lognormal Filters. International
Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS),
Antwerp, Belgium, 2005. Link 2- Massot C. & Hérault J. Extraction
de la forme et de la perspective dans des textures artificielles et
naturelles par modèles corticaux. Colloque GRETSI, Louvain-la-Neuve,
Belgique, 2005. 1- Massot C. & Hérault J.
Extraction d’indices de perspective dans les scènes naturelles par modèles
corticaux. Colloque
GRETSI, Paris, France, 2003. |