Léo Varnet @leovarnet@qoto.org
- Institution
- CNRS, ENS Paris
- Research topics
- Auditory perception, psycholinguistics, hearing loss.
CNRS researcher at École normale supérieure Paris. Auditory perception, psycholinguistics, hearing loss. My toots are searchable #tootfinder.
Joined Oct 2022
Tired of these studies overstating the results by confusing #correlation and #causation. A recent #PNAS paper (co-authored by D. Kahneman!) starts with the question "can money buy happiness?"... and does no offer any evidence of a #causal relationship https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/08/01/studying-average-associations-between-income-and-survey-responses-on-happiness-be-careful-about-deterministic-and-causal-interpretations-that-are-not-supported-by-these-data/ #stats #statistics #correlationisnotcausation
- Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (Céline Sciamma, 2019)
- Altered States (Ken Russell, 1980)
- Pink Floyd: The Wall (Alan Parker, 1982)
- The guilty (Gustav Möller, 2018)
Voilà ce que j'ai pour l'instant :
- Dans la peau de John Malkovitch (Spike Jonze, 1999)
- Fenêtre sur cour (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
- Le testament du Docteur Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1933)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
- Severance (Dan Erickson, 2022)
- Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
- Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
- Fantasia (Walt Disney, 1940)
- My Fair Lady (George Cukor, 1964)
- Blow out (Brian De Palma, 1981)
- Blow up (Antonioni, 1966)
- The Conversation (F. F. Coppola, 1974)
- Conversation animée avec Noam Chomsky (Michel Gondry, 2013)
En train de préparer mon cours de #psychoacoustique pour l'année prochaine... avec toujours un maximum d'illustrations de #cinéma. Si vous avez des idées de films qui parlent de #perception, d'#audition ou d'expériences de #psychophysique, je suis preneur ! #Cinema #cinemastodon #movies #Filmastodon
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advice on using Pubpeer - aimed at journalists, but of more general interest
#Pubpeer #misconduct #science
https://journalistsresource.org/home/pubpeer-research-misconduct-tips-journalists/
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The mystery of the Vickers citation solved. Hint, it involves papermills and citation farming.
h/t to Maarten van Kampen and Alexander Magazinov
https://forbetterscience.com/2023/07/31/the-vickers-curse-secret-revealed/
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I feel like someone must have done this terrible #linguistics joke before, but I've never actually seen it.
@psycholinguistics @linguistics Some examples of application to the analysis of speech sounds (https://hal.science/hal-02551914) and natural soundscapes (https://hal.science/hal-02566489)
Happy to introduce the first release of TMST, a #Matlab toolbox for the computation of amplitude- and f0- modulation spectra and spectrograms. This toolbox provides different tools to explore the modulation content and dynamics of #audio signals, in particular #speech #sounds. https://github.com/LeoVarnet/TMST #SpeechPerception #SpeechProduction @psycholinguistics @linguistics
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Quand les médias, même réputés sérieux, s'alignent sur les priorités sociales et géopolitiques du pouvoir, «Le Monde diplomatique» fait le pari du recul, de l'exigence et de la sélection.
Cet été, on s'abonne, on s'arrête, on réfléchit !
https://mastodon.social/users/alatitude77/statuses/100322535956471172
I couldn't agree more! While I acknowledge the brilliance of some ideas in Douglas #Hofstadter's Gödel Escher Bach, I can't help but feel that the hype around it is a bit excessive. The book aims to unite math, #CognitiveScience, and art through the concept of recursion, in a recursive style, but I find it verbose with some hand-waving about Zen and music theory. Personally, I prefer a more straightforward approach, like "Metamagical Themas," where Hofstadter shares his reflections on self-reference and #GödelsTheorem without unnecessary stylistic effects. #bookstodon #GödelEscherBach @alatitude77
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Douglas #Hofstadter, the legendary author of "#Gödel, #Escher, #Bach", gave a talk on #AI *wearing the same sweater as the Dude*, the Big Lebowski himself!
I am aware that this is a *very* small nerdery niche, but something definitely comes full circe for me personally there.
Source: https://youtu.be/lfXxzAVtdpU
Recommending both, #GEB and #TheBigLebowski for a re-read & re-watch.
"Two sages were standing on a bridge over a stream. One said to the other, 'I wish I were a fish. They are so happy.' The other replied, 'How do you know whether fish are happy or not? You're not a fish.' The first said, 'But you're not me, so how do you know whether or not I know how fish feel?'
Adam Hindman, Lessons from the Temple
#CognitiveScience #Tao
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Over many years, I have been gradually replacing all of the paragraphs in the Ship of Theseus Wikipedia article.
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Our boycott of closed-access journals as reviewers has reached 400 signatories! Let's take it to 500 🚀
https://nofreeviewnoreview.org/ #NoFreeViewNoReview #OpenAccess #Boycott
An excerpt from Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus about #music and ambiguity:
« Relationship [in music] is everything. And if you want to give it a more precise name, it is "ambiguity." To illustrate the meaning of the word, he played for me chord-progressions belonging to no definite key; demonstrated for me how such a progression fluctuates between C major and G major, if one leaves out the F [...] how it keeps the ear uncertain [...] "You know what I find?" he asked. "That music turns the equivocal into a system. Take this or that note. You can understand it so or respectively so. You can think of it as sharpened or flattened, and you can, if you are clever, take advantage of the double sense as much as you like." »
This somewhat echoes the conclusion of a scientific paper by Pressnitzer, Suied and Shamma on #Auditory Scene Analysis :
« Music is an especially challenging stimulus to make sense, as most of it is abstract without any clear reference to an external object. By embedding several latent perceptual organizations into complex acoustical scenes, music may well be able to challenge the listener with a rich set of possibilities that can be freely entertained, with no other potential consequence than being surprised, rejoiced, or moved. » https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2011.00158/full #ASA #AuditorySceneAnalysis #MusicPerception #Cognition #CognitiveScience
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Thinking about kinds of analysis errors. There are errors of design, doing the wrong analysis intentionally, & also errors of execution, doing the wrong analysis by accident. Like this 2016 example in which country codes entered as continuous by accident. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30670-4
Working in ways to prevent such errors is important. I simulate synthetic data to validate my analysis. Even in simple contexts, accidents can happen. Because computers suck and are out to get us.
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I swear, I've been submitting articles to journals for almost 10 years now and I still have no idea what to write in the cover letter. Like, what can I say that the editors won't get from just skimming the abstract and looking at the contact info associated with my profile in the submisison system?
WE SHOULD BE PAST THE NEED FOR COVER LETTERS, DAMMIT! THIS IS THE FUTURE!
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This quote, estimating that at least 50% of the literature might be a Type 1 error due to inflated false positive and publication bias, was published 38 years before Ioannidis (2005) making the same point in 'Why most published research findings are false'
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A question that is reminiscent of both Douglas Hofstadter and Daniel Dennett's work (and also of some of @gregeganSF books): what sort of things can be truly generated by simulation? As John Searle said: "No one would suppose that we could produce milk and sugar by running a computer simulation of the formal sequence in lactation and photosynthesis". Similarly, Dennett stresses that a simulated hurricane causes no floods and devastation... Or does it? Maybe if you manage to integrate an AI in the simulation, then from its point of view this would look like a real hurricane. But at least it is not a hurricane at the "level" of the programmer. Now there are also things that are "truly" generated by simulation at the level of the programmer. Think of mathematical proof. If you design a computer program to produce mathematical proofs, then it won't generate simulated mathematical proofs but true mathematical proofs. The same goes for language or music. Now the big question is : on which side of this divide does the mind fall? Is it more like milk or more like language?
- Institution
- CNRS, ENS Paris
- Research topics
- Auditory perception, psycholinguistics, hearing loss.
CNRS researcher at École normale supérieure Paris. Auditory perception, psycholinguistics, hearing loss. My toots are searchable #tootfinder.
Joined Oct 2022
