Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonKonrad Lehmann @konlehmann.bsky.social · 03/03/2026www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comA Predictive Processing Framework for Joint Action and CommunicationHumans act together to achieve feats they could never achieve alone and communicate to ensure alignment of meaning and understanding across different … 011
Haemy Lee Masson @hleemasson.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Still recruiting autistic adults, non-autistic men, or non-binary participants! #autism #neurodiversity 030
Haemy Lee Masson @hleemasson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Recruiting participants for a study validating a new measure of autistic social touch experiences. This questionnaire was co-developed with autistic people, and we are now at the validation stage so it can be used more widely in research. durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 164
Haemy Lee Masson @hleemasson.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Led by master's student Macy, with collaboration from @kerenmaclennan.bsky.social and @mmellon.bsky.social. @durhampsych.bsky.social. 1. Autistic adults engage in social touch as frequently as non-autistic adults, with similar satisfaction. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comAutistic adults prefer social touch less but engage just as much: The impact of social context, relationship type, sensory responsivity, and psychological factors - Macy Tsz Wing Li, Manuel Mello, Ker...Autistic people face touch-related challenges, yet the factors influencing these difficulties are not well understood. We developed a novel instrument to captur... 2144
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonAndrea Costantino @costantinoai.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Super excited to share a new preprint! We asked a simple-but-big question: What changes in the brain when someone becomes an expert? Using chess ♟️ + fMRI 🧠 + representational geometry & dimensionality 📈, we ask: 1️⃣ WHAT information is encoded? 2️⃣ HOW is it structured? 3️⃣ WHERE is it expressed? 1/n 26420
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonHannah Small @hsmall.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Excited to share new work with @hleemasson.bsky.social , Ericka Wodka, Stewart Mostofsky and @lisik.bsky.social! We investigated how simultaneous vision and language signals are combined in the brain using naturalistic+controlled fMRI. Read the paper here: osf.io/b5p4n 1/n 15011
Reposted by Haemy Lee Massonhenrykbukowski.bsky.social @henrykbukowski.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Our 2-day social cognition workshop "From Self-knowledge to knowing others" in Brussels on Dec1-2 now welcomes registration and abstracts for poster/talk ! Go www.self-knowing-others.org @selfknowingothers.bsky.social @escaneu.bsky.social @escop.bsky.social @scanunit.bsky.social 0218
Haemy Lee Masson @hleemasson.bsky.social · 11/08/2025I will be at CCN this week and present the poster (C82) on Friday. If you are interested in how humans and machines perceive naturalistic social scenes involving physical contact (e.g., hugging), please visit my poster. See the details below. 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=m...2025.ccneuro.orgPoster Presentation 130
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonXavier Job @xavierjob.bsky.social · 31/07/2025📣 New preprint 📣 The brain attenuates self-touch, but how does this unfold at the neural level before the touch? We used MEG to find out 🧠 👉👈biorxiv.orgMotor prediction reduces beta-band power and enhances cerebellar-somatosensory connectivity before self-touch to enable its attenuationPrevailing theories suggest that the brain uses an internal forward model to predict tactile input during voluntary movements, thereby reducing the intensity of the reafferent tactile sensation, a phe... 22112
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonThe M-WAY Study @mwaystudy.bsky.social · 01/08/2025👋 Hello, Bluesky! We're the M-WAY study team, based at UCL. We're researching mental health and wellbeing in autistic young people. Check out our intro blog post below to find our more about what we're doing 🙂 m-way24.blogspot.com/p/what-is-m-...m-way24.blogspot.comWhat is the M-WAY study?The M-WAY study aims to better understand anxiety and depression in autistic young people, so as to inform mental health support for autisti... 3187
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonMonique Botha @drmbothapsych.bsky.social · 17/07/2025PUBLIC LECTURE: My end of @leverhulme.ac.uk fellowship lecture is on the 24th of September! It will be in person at @durhampsych.bsky.social and also streamed online. Tickets are available on Eventbrite. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...eventbrite.co.ukCentre for Neurodiversity and Development Public LectureWhy autism isn't what you think it is (and why that matters) - end of fellowship Public Lecture by Dr Monique Botha 47542
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonThomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 17/07/20258/ In contrast to standard power calculations, our results suggest that jointly optimizing sample size and scan time can boost prediction accuracy while cutting costs. For more complex study design, you can check out our calculator: thomasyeolab.github.io/OptimalScanT... 1297
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonKonstantina Kilteni @kkilteni.bsky.social · 26/05/2025New article out at Science Advances! Three challenges, five questions, and multiple implications of tickle. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @dondersinst.bsky.social @ki.se @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor #ERCResearch #ticklelabscience.orgThe extraordinary enigma of ordinary tickle behavior: Why gargalesis still puzzles neuroscienceTickle sensation remains one of the biggest unresolved mysteries in neuroscience—one that scientists are only beginning to unravel. 64318
Haemy Lee Masson @hleemasson.bsky.social · 26/06/2025‼️ Preprint alert ‼️ Led by master's student Macy, with collaboration from @kerenmaclennan.bsky.social and @mmellon.bsky.social. Link: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1. Autistic adults engage in social touch as frequently as non-autistic adults, with similar satisfaction.osf.ioOSF 162
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonHilary Richardson @hilaryrichardson.bsky.social · 20/06/2025gearing up to recruit / prepare children to do a movie-viewing fMRI experiment? share this article with them! kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....kids.frontiersin.orgBehind the Scenes: Using Movies to Study the Human BrainWhat happens inside your brain when you watch your favorite movie? Maybe you wonder what the character thinks or wants to do next? Since characters in movies often act like we do in real life, scienti... 1219
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonPascal Vrticka @pvrticka.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Last chance to apply for a fully-funded 2-year #PostDoc in my @soneatlab.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social using #fNIRS #hyperscanning & behavioural assessment in #children. 👉🏻 SWITCH: pvrticka.com/switch-proje... Deadline: 01.06.25 Start: 01.10.25 vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...vacancies.essex.ac.ukJob profile 035
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonLeyla Isik @lisik.bsky.social · 16/05/2025I’m happy to be at #VSS2025 and share what our lab has been up to this year! I’m also honored to receive this year’s young investigator award and will give a short talk at the awards ceremony Monday 35214
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonRebecca Saxe @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Please help: Do you know a baby, less than 12 months old, who can walk? We are trying to complete a project, 7 years in the works. And all we need are 3 infants who are less than a year old and can walk, to do a short online looking-time study. 🆘 64066
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonMark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 13/03/2025New paper out at @naturehumbehav.bsky.social! This is the most comprehensive investigation ever conducted into how people think about relationships: a true tour de force! We identify 5 dimensions and 3 categories that organize relationship concepts. Proud to have made a (small) contribution to it! 1407
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonAngela Woods @literarti.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Naomi Booth’s stunning new novel - raw content - is among many other things an extraordinary insight into maternal OCD. It was such a privilege to talk with her tonight about risk, writing, Yorkshire, rapture & the shock of birth at a Collected Books event www.hachette.co.uk/titles/naomi...hachette.co.ukraw content'raw content is a work of dark, aching beauty' Helen Jukes, author of Mother Animal 'A stunning mix of horror and tenderness, love and despair. It's rare ... 073
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonNadira Faber @nadirafaber.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Our paper in Nature (@mkwittmann.bsky.social et al.): the brain does not only process the *identity* of a person but primarily our *relationship* to them. Even on a neural level, who someone is *in relation to others* is key. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #neuroskyence 213642
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonRebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · 08/03/2025New paper out 🤩⬇️🧠🫀👋 0143
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonMark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Mario Weick will present the results of a metareview (a review of 149 reviews) of the relation between social class and mental health at this free in-person workshop at Durham University UK on Wednesday 12th March. Sign up to attend here 👇durham.ac.ukMany facets of social inequality - Workshop - Durham UniversityInstitute of Advanced Study, Seminar Room, Cosin's Hall, Durham University, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL 1144
Haemy Lee Masson @hleemasson.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Published in Molecular Autism. This work examined how autistic adults process social touch at the brain network level. The connectivity strength is linked to a greater preference for social touch and social responsiveness—suggesting neural compensatory mechanisms. link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comDynamic functional adaptations during touch observation in autism: connectivity strength is linked to attitudes towards social touch and social responsiveness - Molecular AutismBackground Autistic adults experience differences in social interactions involving physical contact. Brain imaging studies suggest that these differences may be related to atypical brain responses to ... 040
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonLeonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Naturalizing psychopathology—towards a quantitative real-world psychiatry www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comNaturalizing psychopathology—towards a quantitative real-world psychiatry - Molecular PsychiatryMolecular Psychiatry - Naturalizing psychopathology—towards a quantitative real-world psychiatry 011
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonCathy Manning @cmanning.bsky.social · 31/01/2025We're looking for a PhD student for a project on how to make theme parks more inclusive for neurodivergent people, in partnership with Katapult and Drayton Manor. www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen... Deadline 5th March. Get in touch for more info and please share!birmingham.ac.ukNeuroinclusion in themed entertainment attractionsNeuroinclusion in themed entertainment attractions 03239
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonAnnie G. Bryant @anniegbryant.bsky.social · 27/12/2024📣 First three years of my PhD have culminated in this work now published at PLoS Computational Biology! 🥳 We take a deep dive into all the many ways we can slice n dice fMRI dynamics to quantify biologically relevant properties 🧠🧮 doi.org/10.1371/jour... 410935
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonLeonhard Schilbach @leoschilbach.bsky.social · 13/12/2024The biological classification of mental disorders (BeCOME) study: a protocol for an observational deep-phenotyping study for the identification of biological subtypes bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.comThe biological classification of mental disorders (BeCOME) study: a protocol for an observational deep-phenotyping study for the identification of biological subtypes - BMC PsychiatryBackground A major research finding in the field of Biological Psychiatry is that symptom-based categories of mental disorders map poorly onto dysfunctions in brain circuits or neurobiological pathway... 032
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonSimon Eickhoff @sbe.bsky.social · 13/12/2024The limiting factor for MRI based prediction of behavioral traits may be neither the imaging nor the pipeline or learning algorith but rather the reliability of the target phenotypes Thought provoking work my Martin Gell et al: www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comHow measurement noise limits the accuracy of brain-behaviour predictions - Nature CommunicationsOur ability to identify associations between behaviour and brain imaging is important for uncovering markers of cognition and disease. Here, the authors illustrate the importance of the reliability of... 218177
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonLioba Berndt @liobanause.bsky.social · 10/12/2024I think this paper explains the concept of Computational Psychiatry really well: doi.org/10.1038/nn.4...doi.orgComputational psychiatry as a bridge from neuroscience to clinical applications - Nature NeuroscienceThe complexity of problems and data in psychiatry requires powerful computational approaches. Computational psychiatry is an emerging field encompassing mechanistic theory-driven models and theoretica... 1133
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonAdeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Just published🔈 "Structurally informed models of directed brain connectivity" Read: rdcu.be/d3dC4 We review how structural connectivity constrains directed connectivity models 🧠 Lead by @matthewdgreaves.bsky.social w/ @novelli-leo.bsky.social, @sinamansourl.bsky.social and Andrew Zalesky 13714
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonEmily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 11/12/2024This paper sets up a bit of a straw man in that I don't think most people who use movies and stories as fMRI stimuli assume that all movies will (or should) evoke the same response. In a naturalistic neuroimaging expt, the movie *is* the task...biorxiv.orgBetween-movie variability severely limits generalizability of “naturalistic” neuroimaging“Naturalistic imaging” paradigms, where participants watch movies during fMRI, have gained popularity over the past two decades. Many movie-watching studies measure inter-subject correlation (ISC), wh... 9707
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonIris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Very excited by our first benchmarking results on BMD by the talented @sargechris.bsky.social! By including control models trained on Kinetics that deal trivially with time (i.e. treating videos as image sequences), we find better brain alignment scores for actual video models in early visual areas! 2147
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonVictoria Southgate @vhsouthgate.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Now published in Annual Review of Developmental Psychology. This is a review of what we know, and what we don't yet know. In it, I argue that the origins of our self-awareness must lie in interoception, and offer some thoughts on how social interactions might provide a mechanistic link in infancy.annualreviews.orgThe Origins and Emergence of Self-Representation | Annual ReviewsAlthough a reflective self-awareness is often considered to be the pinnacle of human consciousness, it takes time to develop, and behaviors indicating a conceptual self-representation appear only towa... 1310029
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonDimitris Bolis @dimitrisbolis.bsky.social · 09/12/2024A cross-cultural examination of bi-directional mentalising in autistic and non-autistic adults osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 022
Haemy Lee Masson @hleemasson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024For the ESM study on mental health, what would be the best short questionnaire to administer multiple times a day? I usually use the GAD-7 and PHQ-9 to measure anxiety and depression in standard lab-based studies, but I'm unsure if there are better tools for ESM. 000
Haemy Lee Masson @hleemasson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Naturalistic neuroscience is growing. Work from Jane Han, @samnastase.bsky.social et al., Sociality and transitivity capture unique variance in AON. "Behavioral judgments of similarity better reflect neural representational geometry than semantic or visual models". www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgBehaviorally-relevant features of observed actions dominate cortical representational geometry in natural visionWe effortlessly extract behaviorally relevant information from dynamic visual input in order to understand the actions of others. In the current study, we develop and test a number of models to better... 020
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonRuss Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 05/12/2024Currently reading Desperate Remedies by Andrew Scull, which I would highly recommend. I sort of knew that there was a graveyard of failed psychiatric treatments that had been hailed as miracle cures by their proponents, but I had no idea how widely that graveyard extended.hup.harvard.eduDesperate Remedies — Harvard University PressA Washington Post Notable Work of NonfictionA Telegraph Book of the YearA sweeping history of American psychiatry—from the mental hospital to the brain lab—that reveals the devastating treatments doct... 57010
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonThe LAB Lab 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Naturalistic encoding of concepts in the brain @viktorkewenig.bsky.social shows that, while concepts generally encode habitual experiences, the underlying neurobiological organisation is not fixed but depends dynamically on available contextual information. 👏🍾🐐 elifesciences.org/articles/91522 38332
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonMirela @iammirela.bsky.social · 04/12/2024📖 Excited to share our new article, out now in @elife.bsky.social: elifesciences.org/articles/102... Our annotated readling list on neurodiversity is a result of the collaborative efforts of a fantastic, multidisciplinary & neurodiverse teamelifesciences.orgPoint of View: An annotated introductory reading list for neurodiversityA collaboratively developed annotated reading list expands upon core themes in neurodiversity, aiming to enhance understanding and to promote rigorous, destigmatizing, and inclusive practices in resea... 13728
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonBrian C. Keegan, Ph.D. @brianckeegan.com · 05/12/2024The consequences of this burnout are also showing up beyond teaching and service in other essential parts of the system like a rapidly deteriorating peer review system and increasing reluctance to make multi-year commitments to admit+advise graduate students. 15715
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonCoraline Rinn Iordan @coralineiordan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024New paper story time (now out in PNAS)! We developed a method that caused people to learn new categories of visual objects, not by teaching them what the categories were, but by changing how their brains worked when they looked at individual objects in those categories. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgSculpting new visual categories into the human brain | PNASLearning requires changing the brain. This typically occurs through experience, study, or instruction. We report an alternate route for humans to a... 815663
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonAmy Pearson @dramypearson.bsky.social · 29/11/2024🚨New paper alert: Exploring experiences of autistic burnout in motherhood, led by the fantastic Ashton Ferguson for her undergraduate (!!) dissertation. (Short thread)... www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...liebertpub.com“It Has Shown Me How Much I Am Capable Of”: An Exploration of Autistic Burnout Experiences in Motherhood | Autism in AdulthoodBackground: Research has highlighted a relationship between autistic motherhood and autistic burnout, although autistic mothers’ experiences of autistic burnout have not been explored in depth. Method... 910843
Haemy Lee Masson @hleemasson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024A large-scale, multi-lab replication study on infants' perception of social interactions. 010
Haemy Lee Masson @hleemasson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024The relevance of self in understanding others. 010
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonJohanna Joyce @johannajoyce.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/ 361192596
Haemy Lee Masson @hleemasson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024I am planning to apply for the MRC New Investigator grant in the neuroscience and mental health section. This is my first time applying for a UKRI grant, as I am new to the UK. I would greatly appreciate it if anyone could share examples of successful applications. Please send me a DM. Thank you! 011
Haemy Lee Masson @hleemasson.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Interested in social interaction? Here is the starter pack made by @markthornton.bsky.social. My work focuses on neural underpinnings of social touch interaction 🤗🤝 110
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonJ. Brendan Ritchie @jbrendanritchie.bsky.social · 18/11/2024"Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex" with @susanwardle.bsky.social Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam, Dwight Kravitz @cibaker.bsky.social 1/3 33012
Reposted by Haemy Lee MassonCogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 12/11/2024After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro 416583