Publications
Abassi, E., Albouy, P., Coffey, E., Sharp, A., & Zatorre, R. (2026). Enhancing Music Perception Through Auditory-Vibrotactile Training. JoCN Forum. https://doi.org/10.21428/8e6ba8ef.9e54160e
Molliex, M. & Abassi, E. (2026). Personalized Gesture-to-Sound Mapping for Accessible Digital Musical Instruments: An Interactive Machine Learning Approach. In Proceedings of the AI Music Creativity Conference (AIMC 2026). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22256900
Abassi, E., & Zatorre, R. (2026). The representation of speech conversations in the human auditory cortex: role of social and semantic factors. Cerebral Cortex https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhag023
Hébrard, S., Abassi, E., Coffey, E., Gonzalez Merino, S., Zatorre, R., Cohen, L. (2026) Brain Specialization for Music and Word Reading: a High-Resolution Precision Imaging Study. European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology https://cnrs.hal.science/hal-05560047
Golford, L., Noble, J., Knight, M., Abassi, E., Couturier, G., Nestorova, T., Traube, C. (2025) Evaluating Vocality in Orchestral and Mixed Works. ACTOR’s Timbre and Orchestration Resource. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15729385
Abassi, E., & Zatorre, R. (2025). Influence of social and semantic context in processing speech in noise. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 155(3), A33. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0026692
Munin, V., Abassi, E., & Papeo, L. (2025). The effects of spatial relations and motion information in social scene perception. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 25817. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-07870-1
Abassi, E., Bognár, A., de Gelder, B., Giese, M., Isik, L., Lappe, A. & Vogels, R. (2024). Neural Encoding of Bodies for Primate Social Perception. Journal of Neuroscience, 44(40). https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1221-24.2024
Abassi, E., & Papeo, L. (2024). Category-Selective Representation of Relationships in the Visual Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 44(5). https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0250-23.2023
Gandolfo, M., Abassi, E., Balgova, E., Downing, P. E., Papeo, L., & Koldewyn, K. (2024). Converging evidence that left extrastriate body area supports visual sensitivity to social interactions. Current Biology, 34(2), 343-351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.009
Abassi, E., & Papeo, L. (2022). Behavioral and neural markers of visual configural processing in social scene perception. NeuroImage, 260, 119506. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119506
Spriet, C., Abassi, E., Hochmann, J. R., & Papeo, L. (2022). Visual object categorization in infancy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(8), e2105866119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2105866119
Bellot, E., Abassi, E., & Papeo, L. (2021). Moving toward versus away from another: how body motion direction changes the representation of bodies and actions in the visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 31(5), 2670-2685. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa382
Abassi, E., & Papeo, L. (2020). The representation of two-body shapes in the human visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(4), 852-863. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1378-19.2019
Papeo, L., & Abassi, E. (2019). Seeing social events: The visual specialization for dyadic human–human interactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45(7), 877. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000646
Vaessen, M. J., Abassi, E., Mancini, M., Camurri, A., & De Gelder, B. (2019). Computational feature analysis of body movements reveals hierarchical brain organization. Cerebral Cortex, 29(8), 3551-3560. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhy228