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
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@lsp-ens.bsky.social
The LSP (Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs) is a research laboratory at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, and the CNRS, with interests in visual and auditory perception. https://lsp.dec.ens.fr/en
"Musique : le cerveau aime anticiper" sur Le Journal Du @cnrs.fr, avec Daniel Pressnitzer lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/mus...
Musique : le cerveau aime anticiper
Derrière le plaisir d’écouter une chanson se cache une étonnante capacité du cerveau : un mécanisme d’anticipation qui traduit de simples vibrations en émotions. Un phénomène particulièrement exploité...
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Deeply honoured and very humbled to have received the 2026 Kurt Koffka Medal. Many thanks to the committee at the University of Giessen! www.uni-giessen.de/fbz/fb06/psy...
(1/6) My first first-author paper is now out in @nconsc.bsky.social! Part of my PhD work with @mamassian.bsky.social at @lsp-ens.bsky.social. We looked at how confidence behaves during a perceptual learning task with no feedback. academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
Perceptual learning without feedback is accompanied with systematic changes in confidence processing
Abstract. Perceptual learning can occur without external feedback, raising questions about what internal signals might guide this learning. Here, we test t
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Congrats to all LSP speakers & poster presenters at BEYSE 🎉 @mamassian.bsky.social @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social @lotfiahmad.bsky.social @ljubicajovanovic.bsky.social @eecasey.bsky.social @alelorcavyhmeister.bsky.social @Yves Boubenec @Mathilde Martin @Hugo Tissot
Had a great time presenting my first poster at #VSS2026! 👀🧠 Grateful for all the insightful discussions and feedback, and loved seeing many great talks and other posters. We introduced a new paradigm + computational model to study confidence updating during active sampling in decision-making. 💭
Really happy to have presented my first poster at #VSS2026! There were so many great posters and talks. Thanks to everyone who stopped by and heard me talking about Perceptual Confidence on Auditory-Induced Visual Position Biases. I hope to see you all next year with more great science :)
The team at SBDM! @ljubicajovanovic.bsky.social @eecasey.bsky.social @lotfiahmad.bsky.social @lsp-ens.bsky.social Looking forward to this excellent program
When ferrets 🐾 make mistakes, does the premotor cortex 🧠 know it? A new study by J. Boucher, S. Shamma and Y. Boubenec in @plosbiology.org uses functional ultrasound imaging to show that premotor cortex tracks the perceived stimulus, not the one reported by behavior. ⬇️
Premotor cortex hemodynamic responses primarily reflect perceptual rather than specific motor aspects of decision making
How do frontal brain regions guide decision-making in the context of perceptual and non-perceptual factors? This study in ferrets shows through functional ultrasound imaging that activity in the brain...
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How do frontal #brain regions guide #DecisionMaking in the context of perceptual & non-perceptual factors? A study in ferrets reveals that activity in the brain's #PremotorCortex tracks the perceived stimulus, not the one reported by behavior @lsp-ens.bsky.social @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4tv13IZ
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)
Congrats to Jun Yang for defending his PhD on “Visual detection of elementary image features during natural behaviour”. 🎉 Well done Dr Jun on this amazing accomplishment.🥳 -- Credits for the pictures to @mengtingj.bsky.social
The latest research by Alain de Cheveigné from our lab is featured on the cover of the Journal of Neuroscience! https://www.jneurosci.org/content/46/7.cover-expansion
Applications for BAMB! 2026 are officially open! Join us in Barcelona (July 12–23) to master the art of behavioral modeling with our incredible faculty: @meganakpeters.bsky.social @marcelomattar.bsky.social @khamascience.bsky.social @thecharleywu.bsky.social Apply now here: www.bambschool.org
BAMB! 2026 | Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior
Intensive training for experienced researchers in cognitive science, computational neuroscience and neuro-AI. Five interconnected modules, expert faculty, hands-on projects. July 12-23, 2026.
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A forest, a desert, have unique acoustic signatures in frequency and time. A study from our lab (N.Miller, C.Lorenzi) shows that soundscapes recorded over different continents distinguish habitats and follow the global biodiversity decrease from tropical to polar regions. @cognitionens.bsky.social
Modulation statistics of natural soundscapesa) - PubMed
Modulation statistics of "natural soundscapes" were estimated by calculating the modulation power spectrum (MPS) of a database of acoustic samples recorded in nine pristine terrestrial habitats for four moments of the day and two contrasting periods, differing in precipitation level. In particular, …
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Only a few days left to apply to the Cognitive Science Master’s. !!!! Deadline: Feb 24 !!!!
1/ 📢 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 next academic year. 🗓 Deadline: February 24, 2026 💻 Apply here: master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...
The CNRS (@cnrs.fr) and the Ecole Normale Supérieure/PSL University (@normalesup.bsky.social) is launching a 5-year International Research Project (IRP) with University College London (@ucl.ac.uk) on human perception and consciousness. www.ucl.ac.uk/global/news/...
UCL launches landmark European collaboration on perception science
UCL is working with top French partners CNRS and ENS – PSL on a major European research initiative to advance understanding of human perception and consciousness.
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Preprint out, from my work with @mamassian.bsky.social and Anne! We show that time perception is shaped not only by context but also by structural constraints, by extending classical Bayesian models by explicitly quantifying a structural prior impacting duration discrimination. shorturl.at/q8bE6
Modeling how contextual and structural biases shape duration perception
Human time perception is flexible and shaped by both structural constraints and contextual influences. Disentangling these sources of bias is essential for understanding the predictive mechanisms unde...
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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!
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
Huge congratulations to Nicole Miller for successfully defending her PhD, concluding our lab’s 2025 defense season! You can check some of her work on auditory perception of natural soundscapes here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10658775/
1/8 Yesterday, we gathered for our annual end-of-year meeting, and as tradition dictates we awarded the most prestigious and coveted titles of the year. From ferret socializing to coffee consumption, here’s who took home the trophies. ⬇️
Congratulations to @nadiahosseinizaveh.bsky.social on a brilliant PhD defense: "Evolution and Dynamics of Perceptual Confidence: From Perceptual Learning to Global Confidence Formation". Impressive work advancing our understanding of perception and metacognition.
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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A new paper co-authored by Daniel Pressnitzer, from @lsp-ens.bsky.social!
We are remarkably good at recognizing natural auditory “textures”, such as the soothing sound of a running brook or fire crackling in a chimney. But do you think you could remember the exact rain texture that opens “Riders on the Storm”?
We are remarkably good at recognizing natural auditory “textures”, such as the soothing sound of a running brook or fire crackling in a chimney. But do you think you could remember the exact rain texture that opens “Riders on the Storm”?
Laurie Heller (@cmu-neuroscience.bsky.social, @cmu.edu) gave an excellent seminar for @cognitionens.bsky.social invited by the LSP.
LSP thanks Michael Tarr (@cmu-neuroscience.bsky.social @cmu.edu) for an excellent seminar today on Data-driven Visual Discovery Using AI
RT @mamassian.bsky.social: Delighted to share this work led by Thomas Schaffhauser on the processing of rich natural-like motion stimuli (“motion clouds”) in the visual cortex of the ferret: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.23.678183v1