Etienne Abassi

The paper investigates how semantic and social contexts affect phonetic encoding in natural conversations using a speech-in-noise paradigm, finding that dialogues and intact conversations improve performance.

The paper demonstrates that left EBA activity causally supports efficient visual perception of social interactions through fMRI, behavioral, and TMS experiments.

This study investigates how infants categorize objects and finds an incremental development of visual object categorization from 4 to 19 months, with milestones based on saliency and animate-inanimate distinctions.

The paper investigates how the brain processes minimal social scenes of two face-to-face bodies, finding specialized neural and behavioral markers similar to face perception.

The paper shows that facing-body stimuli enhance neural activity in visual areas processing body motion and spatial relations, improving perceptual accuracy and functional integration.

The paper shows that human visual cortex encodes spatial relations between bodies, with specific sensitivity to facing vs. non-facing configurations, affecting body perception and representation.