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Les résultats sont alarmants (mais attendus) : 24.8% des personnes testées présentent une perte auditive > 20 dB et 4.3% une perte auditive incapacitante (pertes > 35 dB) @disability (2/3)

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RT @SocHistTech
What does the spread of hearing aids in 1950s Japan say about the history of sound technologies and cultures? In "Beautiful Sounds, Beautiful Life" @frankmondelli writes about hearing aids and music, in Deaf classrooms, events, corporate histories.
Link: muse.jhu.edu/article/868053

The two remaining projects are from the IRCAM’s side. Emmanuel Ponsot is investigating the integration of spectral and temporal information by the auditory system. He also received a funding for a project looking for early markers of cochlear synaptopathy. (8/X)

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In parallel, Monica Hedge is exploring similar questions on infants of 6 months or 10 months, as part of her PhD project (7/X)

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The Université Paris Cité team, led by Laurianne Cabrera, is mainly interested in the auditory development during childhood and infancy. In this project, Irene Lorenzini and Charlotte Benoit try to relate the maturation of AM processing in 5- to 11-year old children to the improvement of speech in noise perception during this period of life. (6/X)

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The Auditory Classification Images project is actually the follow-up of my PhD work from 10 years ago. We develop new methods to investigate auditory perception, using a microscopic trial-by-trial analysis (aka "revcorr") of the participant’s responses. We apply this approach to the study of phoneme categorization, AM detection, and sentence segmentation. (5/X)

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This very crowded slide details the Human Auditory ecology project led by Christian Lorenzi, investigating many aspects of the perception of natural soundscape by humans, from the detection of biophony (e.g. birdsongs) to the design of an algorithm for synthesizing natural soundscapes

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At the core of the Modulation group is the notion of computational modelling of auditory processing. In almost all our projects we use artificial listeners as a baseline to compare/predict/interpret the results of human participants. We also contribute actively to the Auditory Modeling Toolbox project (amtoolbox.org/), which provides open-source models for many stages of the auditory system. (3/X)

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@cognition @psycholinguistics The Modulation Group brings together researchers from 3 institutions in Paris: l'Ecole normale supérieure, Université Paris Cité and Ircam. (2/X)

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I am preparing a presentation about the ongoing projects of our research team in Paris, and I realized that it may be worth sharing as a thread as an for the @cognition @psycholinguistics community in the ⬇️

Then we analysed how well auditory neurons along the ascending auditory pathway were able to track slow changes of the sounds temporal envelope. The answer is: pretty well in general. Figure below shows the correlations in the original condition between peri-stimulus time histograms (PSTHs) of subcortical and cortical recordings and the stimulus envelope, both filtered in three selected AM ranges (slow fluctuations, medium fluctuations, fast fluctuations).

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In a nutshell: Samira did a fantastic job recording neuronal activity from six different levels of the auditory system from auditory nerve up to secondary auditory cortex in anesthetized guinea-pigs, in response to many different types of degraded stimuli: vocalizations from other guinea-pigs, either in quiet, vocoded (with various resolutions), in a stationnary noise or a more natural noise (at various SNRs)

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New paper published in the Journal of Physiology by Samira Souffi, JM Edeline, Brice Bathelier, Chloé Huetz, and myself: "Reduction in sound discrimination in noise is related to envelope similarity and not to a decrease in envelope tracking abilities" physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Also, I took note of some good ideas to bring back to the lab in Paris:
- display the recently published papers on a bulletin board (and the recent posters on the wall)
- name the experimental cabins after great (male and female) scientists, with a short biography
- have a chessboard with an ongoing game open to everyone
... I you have other simple ideas like these ones that can make the lab a more friendly/stimulating place, I'm all ears.

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Et encore, je ne parle pas de tout le fantastique matériel expérimental que j'ai découvert ici, notamment la pièce aux murs couverts de microphones et d'enceintes et qui est capable de reproduire en temps réel les résonances d'une salle de classe ou d'une église.

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Et le clou du spectacle : un bassin représentant la propagation des ondes acoustiques depuis une source sonore jusqu'à l'oreille. Il s'agit en fait d'une matérialisation de l'analogie des ronds dans l'eau : notre système auditif est comme un flotteur posé sur un bassin sur lequel s'ébattent plusieurs canards et qui parviendrait à identifier le nombre et la position des canards en se basant uniquement sur les ondes à la surface de l'eau qui lui parviennent (c'est à dire sur le mouvement vertical du flotteur). Ici, en fait de canards, l'expérimentateur produit des ondes à la surface du bassin, qui se propagent jusqu'au centre où un petit flotteur dans une tête stylisée se met à s'agiter.

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Évidemment, un couple de paraboles acoustiques qui permettent d'entendre quelqu'un chuchoter à l'autre bout du jardin (même un jour de grand vent comme aujourd'hui). Pour les personnes n'ayant pas la chance de passer à Oldenburg, il y a un autre exemplaire à la Cité des Sciences.

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Pour les amateurs et amatrices d'histoire de la psychophysique, on trouve également une belle collection de résonateurs de Helmholtz de différentes formes et tailles à l'embouchure desquels on peut poser son oreille (fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9s)

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Ce Hörthron amplifie le son venant d'une direction précise. La personne qui s'assied à l'intérieur perçoit les sons de façon très directionnelle... ce qui est extrêmement déstabilisant.

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Aujourd'hui je présentais mes recherches à l'Université d'Oldenburg, et à cette occasion j'ai découvert leur merveilleux Hörgarten ("jardin de l'audition") qui jouxte le bâtiment d'audiologie.

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