Staff profile
Overview
Affiliation |
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology |
Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing |
Biography
I earned a Ph.D. in Brain Imaging Engineering in 2016 at Korea University and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Johns Hopkins University (USA). I am also a guest scientist at Johns Hopkins and MPI for Intelligente System.
My research goal is to better understand the neural basis of social-affective processing in neurodiverse populations. I use naturalistic neuroimaging (fMRI and EEG) and computational modeling (deep learning and natural language processing). Currently, I focus on investigating social touch (scene) processing in autistic adults.
If you are looking for an academic mentor and interested in social neuroscience and autism research, please get in touch.
Research interests
- Affect Computing
- Autism
- EEG
- Machine Learning
- Mental Health
- Social Neuroscience
- Social Touch
- fMRI
Publications
Journal Article
- Lee Masson, H., Chen, J., & Isik, L. (2024). A shared neural code for perceiving and remembering social interactions in the human superior temporal sulcus. Neuropsychologia, 196, Article 108823. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108823
- Lee Masson, H., & Isik, L. (2023). Rapid processing of observed touch through social perceptual brain regions: an EEG-fMRI fusion study. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(45), 7700-7711. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0995-23.2023
- Born, S. J., Shi, K., Lee Masson, H., Lee, H., Lee, Y., & Chen, J. (2023). Word-timestamped transcripts of two spoken narrative recall functional neuroimaging datasets. Data in Brief, 50, Article 109490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109490
- Miralles, D., Garrofe, G., Pares, C., Gonzalez, A., Serra, G., Soto, A., …Masson, H. L. (2022). Multi-modal self-adaptation during object recognition in an artificial cognitive system. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 3772. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07424-9
- Masson, H. L., & Isik, L. (2021). Functional selectivity for social interaction perception in the human superior temporal sulcus during natural viewing. NeuroImage, 245, Article 118741. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118741
- Ritchie, J. B., Masson, H. L., Bracci, S., & Op de Beeck, H. P. (2021). The unreliable influence of multivariate noise normalization on the reliability of neural dissimilarity. NeuroImage, 245, Article 118686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118686
- Masson, H. L., Pillet, I., Boets, B., & de Beeck, H. O. (2020). Task-dependent changes in functional connectivity during the observation of social and non-social touch interaction. Cortex, 125, 73-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2019.12.011
- Masson, H. L., de Beeck, H. O., & Boets, B. (2020). Reduced task-dependent modulation of functional network architecture for positive versus negative affective touch processing in autism spectrum disorders. NeuroImage, 219, Article 117009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117009
- Pillet, I., de Beeck, H. O., & Masson, H. L. (2020). A Comparison of Functional Networks Derived From Representational Similarity, Functional Connectivity, and Univariate Analyses. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13, Article 1348. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.01348
- Luyck, K., Goode, T. D., Masson, H. L., & Luyten, L. (2019). Distinct Activity Patterns of the Human Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis and Amygdala during Fear Learning. Neuropsychology Review, 29(2), 181-185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-018-9383-7
- Masson, H. L., Pillet, I., Amelynck, S., Van De Plas, S., Hendriks, M., Op de Beeck, H., & Boets, B. (2019). Intact neural representations of affective meaning of touch but lack of embodied resonance in autism: a multi-voxel pattern analysis study. Molecular Autism, 10(1), Article 39. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-019-0294-0
- Masson, H. L., Kang, H., Petit, L., & Wallraven, C. (2018). Neuroanatomical correlates of haptic object processing: combined evidence from tractography and functional neuroimaging. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-017-1510-3
- Pegado, F., Hendriks, M. H., Amelynck, S., Daniels, N., Bulthe, J., Masson, H. L., …Op de Beeck, H. (2018). A Multitude of Neural Representations Behind Multisensory ``Social Norm'' Processing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, Article 153. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00153
- Masson, H. L., & Op de Beeck, H. (2018). Socio-affective touch expression database. PLoS ONE, 13(1), Article e0190921. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190921
- Masson, H. L., Van de Plas, S., Daniels, N., & Op de Beeck, H. (2018). The multidimensional representational space of observed socio-affective touch experiences. NeuroImage, 175, 297-314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.04.007
- Pegado, F., Hendriks, M. H., Amelynck, S., Daniels, N., Bulthe, J., Masson, H. L., …Op de Beeck, H. (2018). Neural Representations Behind `Social Norm' Inferences In Humans. Scientific Reports, 8, Article 12943. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-31260-5
- Masson, H. L., Wallraven, C., & Petit, L. (2017). ``Can touch this'': Cross-modal shape categorization performance is associated with microstructural characteristics of white matter association pathways. Human Brain Mapping, 38(2), 842-854. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23422
- Masson, H. L., Bulthe, J., Op de Beeck, H. P., & Wallraven, C. (2016). Visual and Haptic Shape Processing in the Human Brain: Unisensory Processing, Multisensory Convergence, and Top-Down Influences. Cerebral Cortex, 26(8), 3402-3412. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhv170