Bruno L. Giordano, Ricardo de Miranda Azevedo, Yenisel Plasencia-Calaña, Elia Formisano, and Michel Dumontier. 2022, Frontiers in Psychology 13: 964209  — @HAL Taxonomies and ontologies for the characterization of everyday sounds have been developed in several research fields, including auditory cognition, soundscape research, artificial hearing, sound design, and medicine. Here, we surveyed 36 of such […]

Isabelle Dautriche, Brian Buccola, Melissa Berthet, Joel Fagot, and Emmanuel Chemla. 2022, Scientific Reports 12 (1): 19181  — @HAL Can non-human animals combine abstract representations much like humans do with language? In particular, can they entertain a compositional representation such as ‘not blue’? Across two experiments, we demonstrate that baboons (Papio papio) show a capacity […]

Grégoire Boulinguez-Ambroise, Emmanuelle Pouydebat, Éloïse Disarbois, and Adrien Meguerditchian. 2022, Developmental Science 25 (1) — @HAL The most emblematic behavioral manifestation of human brain asymmetries is handedness. While the precise mechanisms behind the development of handedness are still widely debated, empirical evidences highlight that besides genetic factors, environmental factors may play a crucial role. As […]

Yannick Becker and Adrien Meguerditchian. 2022, Symmetry 14 (5): 876 — @HAL Humans are the only species that can speak. Nonhuman primates, however, share some ‘domain-general’ cognitive properties that are essential to language processes. Whether these shared cognitive properties between humans and nonhuman primates are the results of a continuous evolution [homologies] or of a […]

Kerri M. Bailey, Bruno L Giordano, Amanda L Kaas, and Fraser W Smith. 2022, Cerebral Cortex, bhac296  — @HAL Neurons, even in the earliest sensory regions of cortex, are subject to a great deal of contextual influences from both within and across modality connections. Recent work has shown that primary sensory areas can respond to […]