We were very happy to host the Stuttering Workshop in the reConnect Institute in Paris! It aimed to establish the scientific and clinical framework for France’s first dedicated reference center for fluency disorders. We heard so many fascinating talks during this day. #stuttering #cluttering
Neurospeech Team
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The "Neural coding and neuroengineering of human speech functions" team (Dirs. @annelisegiraud.bsky.social & @sophiebouton.bsky.social) studies speech perception and production, to design new therapies for speech disorders. @ reConnect Institute (Paris)
New paper out in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social: Happy to have collaborated on this project, led by Anne-Lise Giraud (@neurospeech.bsky.social), seeking to articulate a framework linking genetic variation, disrupted neural oscillatory dynamics, and autism-related language difficulties 🧪🧠🧬🗣️
Bridging language phenotypes, neural dynamics and gene regulation in autism
Abstract. Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) affect approximately 1% of the global population, with prevalence rising over recent decades. Although ASDs are heritable (~70%), translating genetic finding...
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We are launching the ESA study, aiming to identify the factors (hearing, mental, and physical health) associated with #tinnitus and its severity. Whether you have tinnitus or not, you can respond to our anonymous cross-language survey (and share it!). More info below ⬇️
Projet ESA : Exploration des plaintes subjectives
The project is led by the Pasteur Institute and the reConnect Institute. The reConnect Institute, a foundation under the auspices of the Pasteur Institute, brings together stakeholders in the fields o...
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PhD opportunity @ Institut @pasteur.fr, with Gabriel Lepousez, for applications to the competitive PPU PhD Program. Project on voice perception and neuro/immune responses. Seeking strong candidates in neuroscience, programming & signal processing. PPU: www.pasteur.fr/en/about-us/...
Pasteur-Paris University International doctoral program (PPU) | Pasteur.fr
The Institut Pasteur organizes a doctoral program in collaboration with Université Paris Cité, Sorbonne Université, and Université Paris Saclay, for students holding a master degree or the equivalent ...
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Excited to share our new paper in Nature Communications! 🎉 Recording neurons in human temporal cortex, we found that speech sounds and word meaning are both encoded in neural manifolds, and that speech sounds line up in time with word meaning, a signature of top-down prediction. 🧵
Excited to share that my postdoc work with Timothée Proix @ndlab.bsky.social is now in Nature Communications!🎉 Recording from 624 human neurons, we show that semantic predictions realign phonetic population activity—revealing how meaning feeds back to reshape speech-sound processing. Thread 1/6 👇
Top-down semantic predictions align phonetic neuronal dynamics in human superior temporal gyrus - Nature Communications
How semantic information influences phonetic processing during speech perception remains unclear. Here, the authors show that semantic predictions reshape phonetic representations in human temporal co...
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🧠 Presenting an experimental results of our project tonight at #SNL2026 in Geneva! Feel free to pass by the poster D87 or to read our preprint. Let’s talk about decoding and prediction - both temporal and linguistic. 📌 D87 🖥️ doi.org/10.64898/202...
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.
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🥈 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
Speech is defined by theta-gamma coupled acoustic rhythms, mapped onto segregated populations in human early auditory cortex
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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
📢 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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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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📢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 💡
🧠 Et si des sons pouvaient aider à guérir la dyslexie ? | My PhD at the Institut Pasteur
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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.
📢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.