Abdellah Fourtassi, Sophie Regan & Michael C. Frank Developmental Science (2021) 24:e13018. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13018 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03191088 Cognitive development is often characterized in terms of discontinuities, but these discontinuities can sometimes be apparent rather than actual and can arise from continuous developmental change. To explore this idea, we use as a case study the finding by Stager and Werker […]
The representational dynamics of perceived voice emotions evolve from categories to dimensions
Bruno L. Giordano, Caroline Whiting, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Sonja A. Kotz, Joachim Gross and Pascal Belin
FMRI-based identity classification accuracy in left temporal and frontal regions predicts speaker recognition performance
Virginia Aglieri, Bastien Cagna, Lionel Velly, Sylvain Takerkart, Pascal Belin Abstract Speaker recognition is characterized by considerable inter-individual variability with poorly understood neural bases. This study was aimed at (1) clarifying the cerebral correlates of speaker recognition in humans, in particular the involvement of prefrontal areas, using multi voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) applied to fMRI […]
Reproducibility in speech rate convergence experiments
Simone Fuscone, Benoit Favre & Laurent Prévot Abstract The reproducibility of scientific studies grounded on language corpora requires approaching each step carefully, from data selection and pre-processing to significance testing. In this paper, we report on our reproduction of a recent study based on a well-known conversational corpus (Switchboard). The reproduced study Cohen Priva et […]
Probing machine-learning classifiers using noise, bubbles, and reverse correlation
Etienne Thoret, Thomas Andrillon, Damien Léger, Daniel Pressnitzer Abstract Many scientific fields now use machine-learning tools to assist with complex classification tasks. In neuroscience, automatic classifiers may be useful to diagnose medical images, monitor electrophysiological signals, or decode perceptual and cognitive states from neural signals. Tools such as deep neural networks regularly outperform humans with […]
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Interspecific behavioural synchronization: dogs exhibit locomotor synchrony with humans Charlotte Duranton, Thierry Bedossa, Florence Gaunet. Behavioural synchronization is widespread among living beings, including humans. Pairs of humans synchronize their behaviour in various situations, such as walking together. Affiliation between dyadic partners is known to promote behavioral synchronization. Surprisingly, however, interspecific synchronization has recived little scientific […]