Psychology has a whole cottage industry in which people come up with some construct that is essentially "attitudes/beliefs/expectations/feelings about X", and then the central claim is that this construct is a super important determinant of future X outcomes.>
Les deux collègues chimistes assassinés par Israël ont été délibérément ciblés par l'armée sous prétexte qu'ils auraient été membres du Hezbollah. Condamnés et exécutés en toute impunité. Feu Hussein Bazzi était un alumnus de @sorbonne-universite.fr où il avait effectué sa thèse.
Suite du chapitre 4, on rentre dans le vif du sujet : l'exploration de spectrogrammes de sons de parole permet de se rendre compte que la perception des phonèmes n'est pas un mécanisme aussi simple qu'il n'en a l'air au premier abord. leovarnet.github.io/psychoac-man...
To wrap up #SPIN2026 in a playful way, I prepared a psycholinguistics-related blind test for the last evening event. The goal was to identify both the song and type of signal processing that was applied to it. Let's see if you can solve these ⬇️
The Speech in Noise (SpiN) workshop, a two-day scientific meeting which brings together researchers from several European hearing-research groups working on speech-related topics. 2026.speech-in-noise.eu?p=informatio...
To wrap up #SPIN2026 in a playful way, I prepared a psycholinguistics-related blind test for the last evening event. The goal was to identify both the song and type of signal processing that was applied to it. Let's see if you can solve these ⬇️
Conference poster, titled "speech in noise workshop"
Group photo of all attendees
Lively poster session
Coffee break with many people chatting
That's it, #SPIN2026 is over, thank you to all attendees for two great days of thought-provoking talks, amazing poster sessions... and actual speech-in-noise demo during coffee breaks!
A crowded room full of posters and workshop attendees
What an incredible start for the #SpiN2026 workshop! Thank you SpiNners, day 1 was great, I'm looking forward to day2!
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
Cover of the booklet. Title: Speech in Noise Workshop, Abstracts. With a colorful picture of the Eiffel Tower.
The program booklet for the SpiN workshop is now ready to download! Two days of intense discussions on psychoacoustics and psycholinguistics await at ENS Paris next week! 2026.speech-in-noise.eu/files/SPIN2026-Programme...
I gave it my best shot, but the 'Longest Experiment of the Year' award from the @lsp-ens.bsky.social slipped through my fingers this year... Congratulations to the winners!
L'écriture de mon manuel de psychoacoustique #openaccess avance bien : chapitre 1 (méthodologie de la psychophysique) terminé, chapitre 2 (physiologie du système auditif) terminé pour ce qui concerne le système auditif périphérique, j'attaque le chapitre 4 !
leovarnet.github.io/psychoac-man...
The toolbox is openly available on Zenodo (zenodo.org/records/7888...) and hosted on GitHub (github.com/LeoVarnet/fa...). Feel free to download it, try it on your stimuli, and use it to address your own research questions!
Many different experiments are included natively in the toolbox (in particular you can run the experiments from all our previous studies). We also conducted a replication of a 50-year-old experiment to demonstrate the versatility of the toolbox.
The toolbox is also designed to be as “plug-and-play” as possible, allowing researchers unfamiliar with the reverse-correlation approach to easily apply it to their own research questions. Finally, fastACI is open source, supporting transparent, replicable, and computationally reproducible research.
By integrating all these options within a consistent and flexible framework, the fastACI toolbox enables, for the first time, systematic comparisons across different configurations.
However, these studies have differed substantially in both their experimental implementations and their analysis pipelines. This lack of standardization has made it difficult to compare findings across studies and has limited reproducibility.
The auditory reverse-correlation technique has become increasingly popular in psychoacoustic research over the past decade, with applications spanning loudness perception, tone-in-noise detection, phoneme comprehension, sentence recognition, etc... (see dbao.leo-varnet.fr/2020/12/03/a...)
Auditory reverse-correlation is a powerful "ear-tracking" technique: it reveals which acoustic features participants rely on while processing (noisy) sounds, using nothing more than a computer and a pair of headphones.
New article published in @frontiersin.bsky.social #Psychology! We introduce fastACI, an #openaccess toolbox that enables researchers to design auditory reverse-correlation experiments and analyze the resulting data. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... @cognitionens.bsky.social @lsp-ens.bsky.social
