Excited to see this Version Of Record of my work out in @elife.bsky.social!
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
We investigate the mental representation of geometric shapes in adults and children using fMRI and MEG. Each figure has a video of me explaining the figure: go and read it, or read below.
Posts by Etienne Thoret
Thrilled: my PhD work “Reconstructing voice identity from noninvasive auditory cortex recordings” is now in @elife.bsky.social DNNs model human temporal voice areas & can reconstruct speaker identity from fMRI. Ty to supervisors, co authors, CERIMED & participants elifesciences.org/articles/98047
Stéphane Mallat, de la théorie des ondelettes aux fondements de l’IA générative sur @franceinter.fr
➡️ www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/la-...
🔬 Excited to present our latest research at the #MAIN2025 conference today!
🔗 laurentperrinet.github.io/talk/2025-12...
#DeepLearning #ComputerVision #AI #Research #NeuralNetworks #NeuroAI #OpenScience I love #Montreal
My book "The Brain, in Theory" on the publisher's website (out in April 2026):
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Please register ASAP to our 1-day workshop on
"Emerging topics in audio signal processing"
Talks by J. Longdon, C. Desjonquères, A. Vicet, N. Misdariis
+ 10 amazing posters
Full program and free registration here
gdr-iasis.cnrs.fr/reunions/dom...
We got the cover 🎉🎉 🎉 ! Beautiful artwork from the talented Carole Marchese, PhD student in my lab.
Super cool work with striking hypotheses, original methods, and nice conclusions ⏬⏬⏬
New preprint!
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Are cortical rhythms entrained by speech or simply evoked?
👉 Evoked.
TL;DR:
Speech acoustics already carry the nested theta–gamma structure seen in auditory cortex.
Using advanced signal analyses, stereoEEG data, and speech corpora (17 languages).
🧵👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNPx...
This made the use of Representational Similarity Analysis (RSA) more explainable and transparent, letting us see more clearly which brain data aligns with theoretical models 🙃
Interesting note: we recycled bubbles, a method from vision psychophysics, to identify which neurons are the most important in the encoding of identities!
Work led by Margherita Giamundo’s postdoc work, just out in Science Advances!
Using fMRI-guided electrophysiology in macaques, she discovered neurons in the anterior temporal lobe that respond specifically to voice identity!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Do birds tune their songs to their hearing?
Is there tight coevolution between avian vocal signals and hearing-or do signallers and perceivers evolve more loosely?
It turns out perfect tuning is not required...
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#bioacoustics
#prattle 💬
#ornithology 🪶
#International🌎| Retrouvez les 8 projets lauréats de la campagne des @iea.org 2024, appel de la Direction Europe et international du @cnrs.fr destiné à favoriser à l'exploration de nouveaux champs de recherche et de #partenariats à l'international.
➡️ www.ins2i.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
To avoid the problem to some extent, should neuroscience focus on the neural system without worrying about how that neural system is implemented at the low level? This is what the Tortoise said to Achilles 🙃 & I don't know what this would mean either for neuroscience: not to focus on implementation?
With @etiennetho.bsky.social we are co-organizing a special session on human auditory ecology
"Listening With: Minds, Milieux, Machines and Musics"
at CMMR in London
cmmr2025.prism.cnrs.fr/regular-pape...
Extended abstracts (2 p.) due Jun. 29th
Full papers (4–12 p.) due Sep. 12th
Please share!
Bravo Charly !
Happy to announce my first postdoc preprint at @bathellierlab.bsky.social on offset responses in the auditory system! We found although these responses are found throughout the central auditory system, they provide richer information about elapsed sounds in the auditory cortex.
tinyurl.com/3y2nvpr9
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📢 New publication alert! 📢
👂Ever struggled to understand natural speech in a noisy environment? 🤔
Our new research shows that moving rhythmically can actually help you hear better!
royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/ZWRPM...
with: @strijkers.bsky.social & Noémie teRietmolen
🧵👇
Ce matin j’ai goûté le flan d’une petite pâtisserie bordelaise. C’est vraiment pas mal.
Chouette Patisserie vous connaissez la team ?
might be of interest to @lostanlen.bsky.social
and anybody else who likes to dynamical systems models 😜
One of Gabo's students has been working hard on a new Python package that wraps up their model
github.com/saguileran/b...
#prattle 💬
#bioacoustics
au micro de @francemusique.fr, j'ai parlé de paréidolie, de temps réel, de robots quadrupèdes et d'Edgard Varèse : "je rêve d'instruments obéissant à la pensée qui [...] se plient à l'exigence de mon rythme intérieur"
pour ce podcast à plusieurs voix signé Pierre-Yves Georges
heureuse écoute ! 🎙️⤵️
🚨We're very excited to share our latest study, by Pablo Diego and team:
"A polar coordinate system represents syntax in large language models",
📄: Paper arxiv.org/abs/2412.05571
🪧: Poster tomorrow: neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
🧵: Thread 👇
!! Job alert !! Our department is anticipating the opening of an exciting new faculty position in Scientific Machine Learning, with a possible focus on neuroscience, for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Info: neuro-team-femto.github.io/2024/04/19/f...
Deadline: May 2025. Start date: Sept 2025.
Come work with us in the FEMTO-ST Institute in Besançon !! Our Dept is advertising a fantastic new tenure-track faculty position in AI / data-driven modeling of dynamical systems, and a possible (but not limited) focus on neuroscience neuro-team-femto.github.io/2024/04/19/f...