Our follow-up study on the psycholinguistics of gender-fair language is finally out! This was a long journey, so here's a thread to explain what we did and what we discovered. The #openaccess article is here for those who want the full story: hal.science/hal-05607624 (1/10)

I wrote my first single-author manuscript, reviewing evidence for an overlooked effect of noise on speech perception. Since no junior researcher were involved (so no pressure to secure traditional publications for their CVs), I decided to explore alternatives to the standard publishing system. (1/2)

Psychology has a whole cottage industry in which people come up with some construct that is essentially "attitudes/beliefs/expectations/feelings about X", and then the central claim is that this construct is a super important determinant of future X outcomes.>

Les deux collègues chimistes assassinés par Israël ont été délibérément ciblés par l'armée sous prétexte qu'ils auraient été membres du Hezbollah. Condamnés et exécutés en toute impunité. Feu Hussein Bazzi était un alumnus de @sorbonne-universite.fr où il avait effectué sa thèse.

Suite du chapitre 4, on rentre dans le vif du sujet : l'exploration de spectrogrammes de sons de parole permet de se rendre compte que la perception des phonèmes n'est pas un mécanisme aussi simple qu'il n'en a l'air au premier abord. leovarnet.github.io/psychoac-man...

To wrap up #SPIN2026 in a playful way, I prepared a psycholinguistics-related blind test for the last evening event. The goal was to identify both the song and type of signal processing that was applied to it. Let's see if you can solve these ⬇️

To wrap up #SPIN2026 in a playful way, I prepared a psycholinguistics-related blind test for the last evening event. The goal was to identify both the song and type of signal processing that was applied to it. Let's see if you can solve these ⬇️

That's it, #SPIN2026 is over, thank you to all attendees for two great days of thought-provoking talks, amazing poster sessions... and actual speech-in-noise demo during coffee breaks!

What an incredible start for the #SpiN2026 workshop! Thank you SpiNners, day 1 was great, I'm looking forward to day2!

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

The program booklet for the SpiN workshop is now ready to download! Two days of intense discussions on psychoacoustics and psycholinguistics await at ENS Paris next week! https://2026.speech-in-noise.eu/files/SPIN2026-Programme.pdf

I gave it my best shot, but the 'Longest Experiment of the Year' award from the @lsp-ens.bsky.social slipped through my fingers this year... Congratulations to the winners!

L'écriture de mon manuel de psychoacoustique #openaccess avance bien : chapitre 1 (méthodologie de la psychophysique) terminé, chapitre 2 (physiologie du système auditif) terminé pour ce qui concerne le système auditif périphérique, j'attaque le chapitre 4 ! leovarnet.github.io/psychoac-man...

New article published in @frontiersin.bsky.social #Psychology! We introduce fastACI, an #openaccess toolbox that enables researchers to design auditory reverse-correlation experiments and analyze the resulting data. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... @cognitionens.bsky.social @lsp-ens.bsky.social

Happy Fechner Day, to those who celebrate

Laurie Heller (@cmu-neuroscience.bsky.social, @cmu.edu) gave an excellent seminar for @cognitionens.bsky.social invited by the LSP.

How about in this case? Surprisingly, most people *predominantly see 180° motion*, while 360° motion is hardly, if ever, perceived – even though the rings move in the same way as above! [3/6]

Regarding the "you don't really understand how a car works unless you can build one" debate, it's interesting to realize that neuroscientists are far from understanding how brains work, but that it takes only two unskilled people to create a new one from scratch.

Faut-il changer la devise du Panthéon "Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissante" ? Sharon Peperkamp, chercheuse au CNRS, propose de remplacer le masculin par un féminin générique et "patrie" par "nation". Ça donne "Aux grandes âmes la nation reconnaissante". www.ouest-france.fr/societe/egal...

Hello everyone! A master student in my team has developed a very nice vowel perception experiment, applying the concept of Markov Chain Monte Carlo to human behavior. We are kindly looking for a few volunteers to take part in a short (~15-20 min) pilot test. If you're willing to help, the

Ok, development and ethics peeps, I have a testing dilemma for you: A kid comes to the lab to take part in a neuroimaging study (EEG, MRI, cognition) with their mom. Consent is signed (only 1 legal guardian signature is required by ethics). The parents are divorced, the dad freaks out and (1)

Les membres de @ca-fait-science.bsky.social seront présents au @doublesciencefest.bsky.social, super motivés par la super programmation de cet incroyable moment de vulgarisation! #double-science #mediation #cafe-des-sciences

Charlotte Jacquemot, directrice du DEC et responsable du programme Femmes et filles de sciences de l'ENS et Frédéric Worms, directeur de l'ENS-PSL, annoncent la création d'une formation aux biais et stéréotypes de genres pour les membres des jurys des 4 ENS, dès la session 2025 de leurs concours.

Festival DOUBLE-SCIENCE I @leovarnet.bsky.social @normalesup.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social participera au débat qui suivra la projection de "Visualiser ce que nous écoutons pour comprendre les sons de parole" de la série Qrieux, à 18h au Ground Control ! Programme complet 👉 bit.ly/43CDbJQ

FastACI: A Toolbox for Investigating Auditory Perception using Reverse Correlation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.01.657236v1

I am looking for examples from various subfields of cognitive sciences that illustrate how 2 brains process the same input differently. For instance, the Yanny/Laurel illusion (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29990455/), or the different decision-making styles (www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...). Any ideas?

Our Interspeech2025 contrib (for geeks) arxiv.org/pdf/2505.23509 Audio DNNs: impressive performance on machine listening tasks. But most representations are computationally costly & uninterpretable. Let's try something different:

I am looking for examples from various subfields of cognitive sciences that illustrate how 2 brains process the same input differently. For instance, the Yanny/Laurel illusion (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29990455/), or the different decision-making styles (www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...). Any ideas?

Yesterday I defended my 'Habilitation à diriger des Recherches'! Thanks to those who attended! And thank you to a wonderful jury: J. Gervain, A. Calcus, I. Chitoran, J.J. Aucouturier, E. Gaudrain, C. Lorenzi.

Last year I decided to conduct a replication study of a milestone study in psychoacoustics, as I needed an example to showcase the capabilities of the toolbox we develop. I turned it into an small internship project.

J'ai le plaisir de vous présenter mon manuel d'**Introduction à la psychoacoustique** en ligne et en #openaccess ! https://leovarnet.github.io/psychoac-manuel-fr/methodo/Introduction.html Enfin, plus exactement il s'agit pour l'instant du premier chapitre uniquement : comment mettre au point une

Dans Severance, la dernière (super) série SF du moment, ça discute cerveau et oscillations ! ! L'occasion rêvée pour un article dans @france.theconversation.com, où neurosciences et science-fiction se mêlent ➡️ theconversation.com/severance-le... Merci Aurélie Louchart, @bentonson.bsky.social !

Aujourd'hui journée de présentation des recherches mené au sein de notre département de recherche à destination des ITAs. Super intiative de "communication interne". Ma présentation : "La voix humaine, de Jean Cocteau à la psycholinguistique"

WHO in anthropology, sociology, political theory, history, psychoanalysis, or music theory, currently works on listening? Methodologically, conceptually, theoretically, practically? I am putting together a workshop for 2026 (in my mind) and am trying this 🐝-hive here again 🙏🏼 #research #academia

Une belle mobilisation pour #standupforscience Paris

*** Mémoire d'HDR enfin soumis ! *** J'y ai passé trois fois plus de temps que prévu mais je ne suis pas mécontent du résultat.

In Vienna for a workshop with the team behind the Auditory Modeling Toolbox ( https://www.amtoolbox.org/ ), a wonderful project dedicated to building a collection of auditory models and improving reproducibility in auditory sciences.

Salut Mastodon ! L'une de mes étudiantes a mis au point un petit test d'évaluation subjective pour un algorithme de séparation de sources et elle aurait besoin de volontaires pour passer cette très courte expérience en ligne... Si vous avez un peu de temps pour l'aider voici le lien :

- Appel à rassemblement devant le siège du CNRS https://piaille.fr/@Pr_Logos/113877863563574032

📢 Come study cognitive science in Paris! The Master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 academic year. 🗓 Deadline: March 13, 2025 💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...

Do you want to study cognitive science and live in Paris? Our master’s program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for 2025-2026. All courses are in English. Deadline: 13 March 2025 More info: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en

Animals make errors influenced by both perceptual and non-perceptual factors. Last study from Jeffrey Boucher and Yves Boubenec from our lab uses this to show that premotor cortex tracks the perceived stimulus, not the one reported by behavior. Discover more: tinyurl.com #Neuroscience #fUSi

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Dois-je m'inquiéter du fait que site de l'ERC encourage les futur.es candidat.es potentiel.les avec le même message que la Française des jeux ? ""Only when you play you can win the game"

Shocked and saddened to learn that our colleague Igor Zyma from Taras Shevchenko University and his wife Olesia Sokur were targeted and killed by a Russian drone attack https://unn.ua/en/news/russian-attack-on-the-capital-ukrainian-neuroscientist-igor-zima-and-his-wife-killed

Un petit résumé en français de notre dernière étude, sur le site du @cnrs.bsky.social : "Cartographier la perception des phonèmes du français" www.inshs.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

Un petit résumé en français de notre dernière étude, sur le site du CNRS : "Cartographier la perception des phonèmes du français" https://www.inshs.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/cartographier-la-perception-des-phonemes-du-francais