Léo Varnet @leovarnet@qoto.org

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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: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/868053

Et voilà! please feel free to ask me if you want more details on any of these projects! (9/9)

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)

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

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)

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)

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

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 (https://www.amtoolbox.org/), which provides open-source models for many stages of the auditory system. (3/X)

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