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Dear members of the ILCB community, |
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At a time when the value of science is increasingly questioned—even undermined—in some parts of the world, it is more vital than ever to reaffirm our commitment to open, rigorous, and collaborative research. This month’s featured quote, from a colleague at a neighbouring Convergences Institute, captures this spirit. The walls between disciplines should not be insurmountable fortresses, but rather low fences—"murets"—that invite exchange, perspective, and innovation.
It is regrettable, then, that we could not share this vision with the French Ministry of Research, which never responded to the initiative led by the ten Convergences Institutes to present the outcomes of eight years of interdisciplinary work and explore ways to sustain the funding of these lighthouse research centres.
Still, the strong response to our recent calls underscores the continued appeal of our approach. We received nearly 150 international applications for the upcoming ILCB Summer School, and 10 applications for our advertised postdoc position, most of them from outside France. These numbers are more than just metrics, they reflect the growing international visibility and attractiveness of the ILCB. |
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You can now watch the video where Prof. Susanne Fuchs, one of the ILCB / Iméra chairs in 2024-25, talks about her personal trajectory and her research, including the collaborations with ILCB members. Simply click on the image above. |
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Production of Phonotactically Legal and Illegal Pseudowords |
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MEG-GLOUPS a curated dataset of raw magneto-encephalography (MEG) recordings from French speakers completing a pseudo-word learning task, along with resting-state recordings before and after the task. The seventeen participants pronounced visually and auditorily presented pseudo-words that followed or violated French phonotactic rules. The dataset adheres to the Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) standard and includes basic preprocessing and quality checks. Comprehensive documentation covers the study’s rationale, design, data collection, and validation.
Valérie Chanoine, Snežana Todorović, Bruno Nazarian, Jean-Michel Badier, Khoubeib Kanzari, Andrea Brovelli, Sonja A. Kotz, and Elin Runnqvist.
Dataset for Evaluating the Production of Phonotactically Legal and Illegal Pseudowords
2025. Scientific Data 12 (1): 792. — @HAL
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Vocalizations by Common Marmosets |
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MarmAudio is a database of common marmoset vocalisations, recorded from an animal facility that houses around 20 marmosets in three cages. The dataset comprises more than 800,000 files of a few seconds each, amounting to 253 hours of data. These recordings capture the marmosets' social vocalisations, encompassing their entire known vocal repertoire. The vocalisations were projected into a 16-dimensional auto-encoder latent space then visualised in 2D using UMAP — Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection. Vocalisation types (e.g., trill, twitter) are indicated by colour.
Charly Lamothe, Manon Obliger-Debouche, Paul Best, Régis Trapeau, Sabrina Ravel, Thierry Artières, Ricard Marxer, and Pascal Belin.
A Large Annotated Dataset of Vocalizations by Common Marmosets
2025. Scientific Data 12 (1): 782. — @HAL
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« Donc, bien sûr, les divisions entre disciplines sont nécessaires, elles structurent le savoir mais il faudrait tout faire, je pense, pour que les murs entre disciplines ne soient plus des murailles mais des murets, si j'ose dire. C'est une expression que Raymond Boudon avait utilisé à la fin de sa vie quand il essayait de dresser un bilan de son expérience universitaire. »
François Héran
Président de l'Institut Convergences
Migrations
Leçon de clôture au College de France, le 15 mai 2025.
Vous pouvez aller directement au moment de la vidéo
où il est question des Instituts Convergences.
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IMERA-ILCB-LPL internal workshops
Curiosity and Intrinsic Motivation in Infant-Child Learning
June 27th and July 1st at IMERA, Marseille
27/06/2025
10.00 - 11.30
Katarina Begus (University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark). What motivates infant learning? Investigating the (meta)-cognitive mechanisms and behavioural manifestations of infant curiosity
11.45 - 13.15
Francesco Poli (MRC, Cambridge). The developmental roots of exploration
1/07/2025
10-11.30
Saloni Krishnan (UCL). Driven to Learn: Intrinsic Motivation in Children’s Word Learning
11.45-12.45
Discussion panel: Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, Chiara Mazzocconi (ILCB, INS, LPL) & Ana Zappa (Univ. Barcelona)
For information, please contact Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells (IMERA FIAS-IMERA ILCB chair), Isabelle Dautriche (CNRS / CRPN), Clement François (CNRS / LPL)
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CORIA-TALN 2025
du 30 juin au 4 juillet 2025 sur le campus Saint-Charles
Organisée par l’Université d’Aix-Marseille et les UMR CNRS LIS et LPL, sous l’égide de l’Association francophone de Recherche d’Information et Applications (ARIA) et l’Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (ATALA), l’édition 2025 regroupe :
- La 20e Conférence en Recherche d’Information et Applications (CORIA)
- Les 18e Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs en RI (RJCRI)
- La 32e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN)
- La 26e Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (RÉCITAL)
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ILCB Summer School – 8th edition
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September 1st to 5th, 2025 |
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Registration is now *closed* for this year's ILCB summer school at CIRM, on the Luminy campus |
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Conference on Embodied and Situated Language Processes (ESLP)
The Embodied and Situated Language Processing (ESLP) Conference provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussing the interaction of language and sensory and motor processing, based on behavioural, neurophysiological, or computational approaches, with the goal fostering theories of semantic grounding or embodiment and pragmatic situated communication and language use. This year's conference will expand its scope to include perspectives on non-human cognition.
The 2025 edition of ESLP will take place from Sept 23rd to 26th at Le Cube in Aix-en-Provence, featuring keynote presentations by
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Workshop "Social Representation and Its Effects on Behavior"
September 25th and 26th, 2005 |
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Summary of upcoming events
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Please always check the events page on the ILCB website for the latest update. |
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CORIA-TALN 2025 |
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June 30th to July 4th @ Campus Saint-Charles, Marseille |
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ILCB summer school – 8th edition |
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1-5, Sept 2025 @ CIRM, Campus Luminy, Marseille |
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Embodied and Situated Language Processes Conference |
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23-26, Sept 2025 @ Le Cube, Aix-en-Provence |
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Workshop "Social representation and its effects on behavior" |
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Sept. 25th-26th @ Campus Timone, Marseille |
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