Arthur Pellet-Rostaing, Roxane Bertrand, Auriane Boudin, Stéphane Rauzy, and Philippe Blache. 2023. Frontiers in Computer Science 5: 1062342 — @HAL Recently, engagement has emerged as a key variable explaining the success of conversation. In the perspective of human-machine interaction, an automatic assessment of engagement becomes crucial to better understand the dynamics of an interaction and […]
Timbral Cues for Learning to Generalize Musical Instrument Identity across Pitch Register
Stephen, McAdams, Etienne Thoret, Grace Wang, and Marcel Montrey. 2023. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 153 (2): 797–811 — @HAL Timbre provides an important cue to identify musical instruments. Many timbral attributes covary with other parameters like pitch. This study explores listeners’ ability to construct categories of instrumental sound sources from sounds […]
Multi-LEX: A Database of Multi-Word Frequencies for French and English
Marjorie Armando, Jonathan Grainger, and Stephane Dufau. 2022. Behavior Research Methods — @HAL Written word frequency is a key variable used in many psycholinguistic studies and is central in explaining visual word recognition. Indeed, methodological advances on single word frequency estimates have helped to uncover novel language-related cognitive processes, fostering new ideas and studies. In […]
The Path of Voices in Our Brain
Benjamin Morillon, Luc H. Arnal, and Pascal Belin. 2022. PLOS Biology 20 (7): e3001742. — @HAL Categorising voices is crucial for auditory-based social interactions. A recent study by Rupp and colleagues in PLOS Biology capitalises on human intracranial recordings to describe the spatiotemporal pattern of neural activity leading to voice-selective responses in associative auditory cortex.
On the Gestural Origins of Language: What Baboons’ Gestures and Brain Have Told Us after 15 Years of Research
Adrien Meguerditchian. 2022. Ethology Ecology & Evolution 34 (3): 288–302 — @HAL Nonhuman primates mostly communicate not only with a rich vocal repertoire but also with manual and body gestures. In contrast to great apes, this latter communicative gestural system has been poorly investigated in monkeys. In the last 15 years, the gestural research we […]
Space–Time Congruency Effects Using Eye Movements During Processing of Past- and Future-Related Words
Camille L. Grasso, Johannes C. Ziegler, Jennifer T. Coull, and Marie Montant. 2022. Experimental Psychology 69 (4): 210–17 — @HAL In Western cultures where people read and write from left to right, time is represented along a spatial continuum that goes from left to right (past to future), known as the mental timeline (MTL). In […]
The Temporal Voice Areas Are Not ‘Just’ Speech Areas
Régis Trapeau, Etienne Thoret, and Pascal Belin. 2023, Frontiers in Neuroscience 16: 1075288 — @HAL The Temporal Voice Areas (TVAs) respond more strongly to speech sounds than to non-speech vocal sounds, but does this make them Temporal “Speech” Areas? We provide a perspective on this issue by combining univariate, multivariate, and representational similarity analyses of fMRI […]
Graph Theoretical Analysis Reveals the Functional Role of the Left Ventral Occipito-Temporal Cortex in Speech Processing.
Shuai Wang, Samuel Planton, Valérie Chanoine, Julien Sein, Jean-Luc Anton, Bruno Nazarian, Anne-Sophie Dubarry, Christophe Pallier, and Chotiga Pattamadilok. 2022, Scientific Reports 12 (1): 20028 — @HAL The left ventral occipito-temporal cortex (left-vOT) plays a key role in reading. Interestingly, the area also responds to speech input, suggesting that it may have other functions beyond […]
Sequence Organization and Embodied Mutual Orientations: Openings of Social Interactions between Baboons.
Lorenza Mondada and Adrien Meguerditchian 2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 377 (1859): 20210101 — @HAL Human interactions are organized in sequence, which is a key component of Levinson’s “interaction engine.” Referring back to the field where it originated, Conversation Analysis, we discuss its relevance within the interaction engine, before moving […]
Challenges and New Perspectives of Developmental Cognitive EEG Studies.
Estelle Hervé, Giovanni Mento, Béatrice Desnous, and Clément François. 2022, NeuroImage 260: 119508 — @HAL Despite shared procedures with adults, electroencephalography (EEG) in early development presents many specificities that need to be considered for good quality data collection. In this paper, we provide an overview of the most representative early cognitive developmental EEG studies focusing […]