The Institut reConnect (aka Hearing Institute) at @pasteur.fr, is launching a call for applications to establish a new research group in Ear Therapy. The first stage of the process is the submission of an Expression of Interest (see details below).

Creation of a new research group – UMR Institut Pasteur/Inserm/CNRS at the Hearing Institute, Institut Pasteur, Paris  - Research

Converting advances in auditory neuroscience into innovative inner ear therapies for deafness   Major advances in the field of auditory research - particularly the development of its molecular dimensi...

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🏅 Congrats to Elisa Gomez‑Perdiguero & Brice Bathellier, winners of the 2026 Vallery‑Radot Prize ! 👏 Their work advances our understanding of immune cell origins & how the brain processes sound — showcasing Pasteurian excellence. 💙 @labnf.bsky.social

🎉We are delighted to announce that Lise Hobeika is joining us as a new PI in our team! She will continue her work on the cognitive determinants and the objective neuromarkers of tinnitus.

📣Proposition de stage dans notre équipe 📣 Nous cherchons un stagiaire avec des compétences en analyse de données EEG. Pour plus de détails, regardez l'annonce ci-dessous.

🥈 CNRS Silver Medal 2026 → Brice Bathellier Neuroscientist decoding how the brain transforms sounds into meaning. Recording thousands of neurons simultaneously across the auditory system, paving the way for cortical implants bypassing the ear. @bathellierlab.bsky.social

new collaborative paper! Speech is defined by theta-gamma coupled acoustic rhythms, mapped onto segregated populations in human early auditory cortex doi.org/10.7554/eLif... @davidpoeppel.bsky.social @luc-arnal.bsky.social @brungio.bsky.social @jremygiroud.bsky.social @ilcb.bsky.social

Discover our new review "Implantable Neural Speech Decoders: Recent Advances, Future Challenges"! Speech decoding is a promising avenue to restore communication in Locked-In Syndrome patients. We discuss current design considerations and implementations + what future improvements could look like.

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🚨 Post-doc Job ALERT! Interested in using AI to better understand how the brain enjoys music? Or how auditory processing changes in Hearing Loss? Want to eat your weight in 🥖, 🧀, and 🍷? Click on this! #neurojobs, #blackinneuro, #neuroskyence, #psychjobs research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

Postdoctoral Position in AI, Machine Learning and Auditory Neuroscience - Research

Paris, France | Institut de l’Audition (Institut Pasteur)Duration: 24 months (flexible start)Supervisor: Keith Doelling (INSERM) About the position We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to focus...

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📣 Check our new print by Soufiane Jhilal! We show that pretrained vision models applied to image-based MEG representations can effectively capture the structure of imagined speech in non-invasive neural signals. #neuroskyence #MEG

Transfer Learning from ImageNet for MEG-Based Decoding of Imagined Speech

Non-invasive decoding of imagined speech remains challenging due to weak, distributed signals and limited labeled data. Our paper introduces an image-based approach that transforms magnetoencephalogra...

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💡You can check our newly published collaborative paper below (with @sophiebouton.bsky.social) ! #neuroskyence

Neural Dynamics Lab, Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich@ndlab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📢 After many years of work, our new paper with Sophie Bouton, Anne-lise Giraud, Elia Formisano, Valerian Chambon and Narly Golestani is finally out: Aligning Statistical Models with Inference Goals doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

We are proud to announce that this work is now published in iScience! #tinnitus #neuroskyence

Tinnitus perception is linked to arousal dysfunction

Tinnitus, the perception of a phantom sound, is often associated with concentration difficulties that have not been characterized. In this study, the attentional and executive functioning of 200 parti...

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Neurospeech Team@neurospeech.bsky.social · last yr.

New preprint from our team! People with tinnitus often complain about attention difficulties so we made them perform several tasks (n=200). After correcting for comorbidities, no deficits in selective attention or executive functions could be observed but they exhibited poorer control of arousal.

Coupled rhythms in early auditory cortex mirror speech acoustics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.22.683926v1

🐕 Anne-Lise Giraud : parlons chiens 🍼 Natalité en berne : la France doit-elle refaire des bébés à tout prix ? 🚙 Dès ses débuts, la voiture électrique avait son avenir plombé 🐙 Un poulpe qui joue du piano ?

📣 Looking for a motivated PhD student trained outside France to apply for a fully funded PhD position within @c-brains.bsky.social. The selected student would join us at the Institut de l’Audition (Institut Pasteur, Paris).

Our review "Neuro-oscillatory models of cortical speech processing", authored by Olesia Dogonasheva, has finally been published. Check it below ⬇️ #compneuro #neuroskyence #EEG

Neuro-oscillatory models of cortical speech processing

In this review, we examine computational models that explore the role of neural oscillations in speech perception, spanning from early auditory proces…

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⬇️ If you haven't, check our new Nat. Comput. Sci article describing our Brain Rhythm-based Inference Model (BRyBI), exploring how neural oscillations can be critical computational frameworks facilitating speech perception. Below, an overview by @scienmag.bsky.social #compneuro #neuroskyence

Rhythmic Predictions Enhance Acoustic-Semantic Speech Processing

Understanding how humans process and interpret speech, especially in the face of distortions, has been a captivating challenge for scientists and researchers alike. The auditory experience of speech

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Nature Computational Science@natcomputsci.nature.com · 10mo ago

📢Out now! Olesia Dogonasheva and colleagues from @neurospeech.bsky.social present a predictive model for speech processing in the auditory cortex. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #compneurosky 🔓 rdcu.be/eImit

🧠Et si des sons pouvaient aider à guérir la dyslexie ? - #MyPhDattheInstitutPasteur Découvrez Olesia, doctorante à l’Institut de l’Audition, qui explore une approche novatrice pour améliorer la lecture chez les enfants dyslexiques : stimuler le cerveau avec des sons. Plus d'info en commentaires 💡

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Check a new article co-authored by our own Ludovica Veggiotti exploring size-action and number-action associations in infancy ⬇️

Exploring size-action and number-action associations in infancy

In the last decades, a growing body of research has assessed the link between numerical and action processing. However, this relationship has not been…

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🎉New Paper Alert!🎉 Really excited that this collaboration is finally out! It shows that combining oscillatory dynamics with hierarchical predictive frameworks generates speech perception that is robust to temporal distortions: similarly to human behavior and more so than current ASR models.

Nature Computational Science@natcomputsci.nature.com · 10mo ago

📢Out now! Olesia Dogonasheva and colleagues from @neurospeech.bsky.social present a predictive model for speech processing in the auditory cortex. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #compneurosky 🔓 rdcu.be/eImit

💡Check our new Point of View paper about the recent advances & future challenges of implantable neural speech decoders, with the aim of restoring communication abilities in Locked-In Syndrome patients. ✒️S. Jhilal, @sissymarche.bsky.social, B. Thirion, B. Soudrie, A-L Giraud & E. Mandonnet

Implantable Neural Speech Decoders: Recent Advances, Future Challenges - Soufiane Jhilal, Silvia Marchesotti, Bertrand Thirion, Brigitte Soudrie, Anne-Lise Giraud, Emmanuel Mandonnet, 2025

The social life of locked-in syndrome (LIS) patients is significantly impacted by their difficulties to communicate. Consequently, researchers have started to e...

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Two amazing half-days during the NeuroDecoder workshop at the Institut de l'Audition! We thank C. Herff, F. Guenther, G. Richard, A. Bittar, A. Gramfort, @oiwi3000.bsky.social, @adeenflinker.bsky.social & @juliaberezutskaya.bsky.social for their enriching presentations and discussion.

Proud to co-organize the NeuroDecoder workshop at the Hearing Institute on September 18-19. We will discuss advanced methods for neural decoding of speech and auditory signals with some brilliant speakers. Info here: dim-cbrains.fr/en/news/news...

The Pasteur Institute opens its Doctoral Program app. There are 5 projects focused on Hearing and my team is involved two of them! 1) neural oscillatory dynamics in temporal processing of speech 2) Algorithms for speech intelligibility in cochlear implants DM me if interested! www.pasteur.fr/ppu

Pasteur-Paris University International doctoral program​ (PPU)

OverviewIn 2009, the Institut Pasteur, the world leading biomedical research institute founded by Louis Pasteur in 1887, inaugurated the Pasteur Paris-University (PPU) international doctoral program i...

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We are deeply saddened to share that our friend and colleague Jim Hudspeth passed away on Saturday. We will remember and continue to be inspired by Jim’s integrity, his humility, and his unwavering commitment to discovery.

A. James Hudspeth, neuroscientist who unlocked secrets of hearing, has died - News

A. James Hudspeth, a Rockefeller neuroscientist who discovered how sound waves are converted into electrical signals in the ear's cochlea, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan. A pioneering scientist and dedicated mentor, he was the university's F.M. ...

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Marta Xavier, Patrícia Figueiredo, et al: Consistency of resting-state correlations between fMRI networks and EEG band power doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Light propofol anaesthesia for non-invasive auditory EEG recording in unrestrained non-human primates. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.644890v1

@scone-neuro.bsky.social has a great review coming soon led by @annekeitel.bsky.social. We summarize major oscillatory mechanisms and discuss open questions across a range of subfields in cog neuro. The preprint should be out soon.

/1 We took our sweet time (~3yrs) to put this into its final shape - but happy to say that the pre-print of an extensive review of brain rhythms in cognition - from a cognruro perspective - is now available. Please let us know what you think. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.48550/arX...