"Trois ans de recherches de financements", quelques conclusions tirées de mes échecs aux différents appels à projets. dbao.leo-varnet.fr/2026/08/01/t...

Here's a thread about a nice student-led project on vowel perception that evolved into a full conference paper for Forum Acusticum 2026 in Graz. #FA2026

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.

Guerre au Moyen-Orient : au Liban, deux enseignants tués dans une frappe israélienne sur un campus de l'université publique

Israël affirme que le métier des deux victimes était une couverture et qu'ils étaient liés au Hezbollah. Le recteur de l'université dénonce un montage photo publié par un site israélien, qui est censé...

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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 ⬇️

Léo Varnet@leovarnet.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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!

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 ⬇️

Léo Varnet@leovarnet.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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!

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!

LSP-ENS@lsp-ens.bsky.social · 8mo ago

3/8 There were many categories for the "Longest Experiment of the Year" price

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

Frontiers | FastACI: a toolbox for investigating auditory perception using reverse correlation

The fastACI toolbox provides a compilation of tools for collecting and analyzing data from auditory reverse-correlation experiments. These experiments involv...

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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...

Et les « grandes femmes » ? La devise du Panthéon divise

« Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissante » : la ministre de l’Éducation nationale, Élisabeth Borne, propose d’ouvrir le débat vers un changement de devise du Panthéon, afin d’inclure les femmes il...

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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?

Auditory Perception: Laurel and Yanny Together at Last - PubMed

An auditory illusion caught the world's attention recently. For the same noisy speech utterance, different people reported hearing either 'Laurel' or 'Yanny'. The dichotomy highlights how perceptions ...

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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?

Auditory Perception: Laurel and Yanny Together at Last - PubMed

An auditory illusion caught the world's attention recently. For the same noisy speech utterance, different people reported hearing either 'Laurel' or 'Yanny'. The dichotomy highlights how perceptions ...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov