Alumni

He completed his PhD at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) on the association between arithmetic and space in 2015 under the supervision of Mauro Pesenti. He continued his research at the University of Tübingen (2016-2017) at the UCLouvain (2017-2020) and now at the University of Luxemburg (2020-2022).

His research primarily focusses on the role of spatial attention in mental arithmetic and working-memory. He also studies patients with hemineglect or oculomotor impairments to uncover the mechanisms underlying various cognitive functions.

He currently works on the international research project “Spatial Numerical Associations in MATHematics (SNAMATH)” which is funded by the INTER grant scheme of the FNR. The project aims at uncovering the roots and the developmental trajectory of spatial-numerical associations in mental arithmetic.

He is an expert in eye-tracking to measure overt and covert attention in various fields of psychology (education sciences, cognitive neuropsychology, addiction, emotion, …).

In his research, he uses behavioral methods and neuromodulation in typical adults, children, and brain-lesioned patients.

Nicolas Masson

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Selected publications

Masson, N., Andres, M., Carneiro Pereira, S., Vandenberghe, A., Pesenti, M., & Vannuscorps, G. (2021). Shifting attention in visuospatial short-term memory does not require oculomotor planning: Insight from congenital gaze paralysis. Neuropsychologia, 161, 107998. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107998

Masson, N., Andres, M., Pereira, S. C., Pesenti, M., & Vannuscorps, G. (2020). Exogenous covert shift of attention without the ability to plan eye movements. Current Biology, 30(18), R1032-R1033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.074

Masson, N., Andres, M., Alsamour, M., Bollen, Z., & Pesenti, M. (2020). Spatial biases in mental arithmetic are independent of reading/writing habits: Evidence from French and Arabic speakers. Cognition, 200, 104262. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104262

Masson, N., Letesson, C., & Pesenti, M. (2018). Time course of overt attentional shifts in mental arithmetic: Evidence from gaze metrics. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(4), 1009–1019. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1318931

Masson, N., & Pesenti, M. (2014). Attentional bias induced by solving simple and complex addition and subtraction problems. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67, 1514–1526. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2014.903985

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