What Freud got right about speech errors by Gary S. Dell (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) Most people associate Sigmund Freud with the assertion that speech errors reveal repressed thoughts, a claim that does not have a great deal of support. I will mention some other things that Freud said about slips, showing that these, […]

Social meaning and speech perception by Benjamin Munson (University of Minnesota, Etats-Unis) It is well established that listeners may categorize ambiguous sounds differently when they are led to believe something about the person who produced them, such as their age, social class, gender, or regional background (Hay, Drager & Nolan, 2006 ; McGowan 2011 ; […]

Vocalisations of Captive Guinea Baboons by Caralyn Kemp (Labex BLRI) As part of a larger study investigating vocal production in Guinea baboons, I have been examining the vocalisations of a captive group at the CNRS primate station in Rousset. The main goal of this aspect of the project was to produce a large-scale database in […]

Apprentissage par renforcement : de la modélisation des processus neuraux aux applications robotiques by Medhi Khamassi (l'Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (UPMC)) L'activité phasique des neurones dopaminergiques est considérée depuis une quinzaine d'années comme le substrat neural de signaux d'erreur de prédiction de la récompense (RPE). Ces signaux se sont avérés très proches […]

Apprentissage par renforcement (direct et inverse) pour les systèmes interactifs by Olivier Pietquin (SequeL team, University Lille 1, LIFL CNRS UMR 8022, INRIA Lille) L'apprentissage par renforcement est une catégorie d'apprentissage automatique qui se différencie des autres par le fait qu'elle a pour objectif l'optimisation d'une séquence de décisions, prenant en compte l'aspect temporel et […]

La Poesie des synapses ou comment les mots nous font plaisir ou peur ? by Arthur Jacobs (Freie Universität Berlin, Dahlem Institute for Neuroimaging of Emotion (D.I.N.E.)) La lecture n'est pas seulement un processus de traitement d'information, mais elle comporte des réponses affectives et esthétiques qui vont bien au-delà de ce que les modèles actuels […]

A Vocal Brain: Cerebral Processing of Voice Information  (Institut des Neurosciences de La Timone, Marseille, France) The human voice carries speech but also a wealth of socially-relevant, speaker-related information. Listeners routinely perceive precious information on the speaker's identity (gender, age), affective state (happy, scared), as well as more subtle cues on perceived personality traits (attractiveness, […]

Sensorimotor processing of speech : brain inspired approaches to automatic speech recognition by Luciano Fadiga, Alessandro D'Ausilio, Leonardo Badino (University of ferrara, Istituto Italiano Di Tecnologia à Gênes)

Prosodic and Social Dimensions of Entrainment in Dialogue by  (Columbia University) When people speak together, they often adapt aspects of their speaking style based upon the style of their conversational partner. This phenomena goes by many names, including adaptation, alignment, and entrainment, inter alia. In this talk, I will describe experiments in English and Mandarin […]