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Dawei Bai @daweibai.bsky.social · 9d

How about in this case?
Surprisingly, most people *predominantly see 180° motion*, while 360° motion is hardly, if ever, perceived – even though the rings move in the same way as above!
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Léo Varnet @leovarnet.bsky.social · 8d

Regarding the "you don't really understand how a car works unless you can build one" debate, it's interesting to realize that neuroscientists are far from understanding how brains work, but that it takes only two unskilled people to create a new one from scratch.

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Benjamin Storme @bstorme.bsky.social · Sep 2

Faut-il changer la devise du Panthéon "Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissante" ? Sharon Peperkamp, chercheuse au CNRS, propose de remplacer le masculin par un féminin générique et "patrie" par "nation". Ça donne "Aux grandes âmes la nation reconnaissante". www.ouest-france.fr/societe/egal...

Et les « grandes femmes » ? La devise du Panthéon divise

« Aux grands hommes la patrie reconnaissante » : la ministre de l’Éducation nationale, Élisabeth Borne, propose d’ouvrir le débat vers un changement de devise du Panthéon, afin d’inclure les femmes il...

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Léo Varnet @leovarnet.bsky.social · Jul 22

experiment can be accessed here: https://run.pavlovia.org/mauromanucci/mcmc_exp/
Thanks in advance!
(The final experiment will be on native English speakers only, but for the pilots we are including any people willing to participate!)

Léo Varnet @leovarnet.bsky.social · Jul 22

Hello everyone!
A master student in my team has developed a very nice vowel perception experiment, applying the concept of Markov Chain Monte Carlo to human behavior.
We are kindly looking for a few volunteers to take part in a short (~15-20 min) pilot test. If you're willing to help, the

A 2-dimensional plot showing trajectories in the first formant / second formant space. The title indicates "trajectories for vowel 'u' "

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Léo Varnet @leovarnet.bsky.social · Jun 28

Bravo pour votre sang-froid et pour tout ce que vous faites.

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Axelle Calcus @axellecalcus.bsky.social · Jun 14

Ok, development and ethics peeps, I have a testing dilemma for you:

A kid comes to the lab to take part in a neuroimaging study (EEG, MRI, cognition) with their mom. Consent is signed (only 1 legal guardian signature is required by ethics). The parents are divorced, the dad freaks out and
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Ça fait science @ca-fait-science.bsky.social · Jun 5

Les membres de @ca-fait-science.bsky.social seront présents au @doublesciencefest.bsky.social, super motivés par la super programmation de cet incroyable moment de vulgarisation!
#double-science #mediation #cafe-des-sciences

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Normale Sup @normalesup.bsky.social · May 28

Charlotte Jacquemot, directrice du DEC et responsable du programme Femmes et filles de sciences de l'ENS et Frédéric Worms, directeur de l'ENS-PSL, annoncent la création d'une formation aux biais et stéréotypes de genres pour les membres des jurys des 4 ENS, dès la session 2025 de leurs concours.

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Cognition ENS @cognitionens.bsky.social · Jun 11

Festival DOUBLE-SCIENCE I @leovarnet.bsky.social @normalesup.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social participera au débat qui suivra la projection de "Visualiser ce que nous écoutons pour comprendre les sons de parole" de la série Qrieux, à 18h au Ground Control ! Programme complet 👉 bit.ly/43CDbJQ

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jun 3

FastACI: A Toolbox for Investigating Auditory Perception using Reverse Correlation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.01.657236v1

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Léo Varnet @leovarnet.bsky.social · May 30

I am looking for examples from various subfields of cognitive sciences that illustrate how 2 brains process the same input differently. For instance, the Yanny/Laurel illusion (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29990455/), or the different decision-making styles (www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...). Any ideas?

Auditory Perception: Laurel and Yanny Together at Last - PubMed

An auditory illusion caught the world's attention recently. For the same noisy speech utterance, different people reported hearing either 'Laurel' or 'Yanny'. The dichotomy highlights how perceptions ...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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David Poeppel @davidpoeppel.bsky.social · May 31

Our Interspeech2025 contrib (for geeks)
arxiv.org/pdf/2505.23509
Audio DNNs: impressive performance on machine listening tasks. But most representations are computationally costly & uninterpretable. Let's try something different:

arxiv.org

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Léo Varnet @leovarnet.bsky.social · May 30

I am looking for examples from various subfields of cognitive sciences that illustrate how 2 brains process the same input differently. For instance, the Yanny/Laurel illusion (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29990455/), or the different decision-making styles (www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...). Any ideas?

Auditory Perception: Laurel and Yanny Together at Last - PubMed

An auditory illusion caught the world's attention recently. For the same noisy speech utterance, different people reported hearing either 'Laurel' or 'Yanny'. The dichotomy highlights how perceptions ...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Léo Varnet @leovarnet.bsky.social · May 27

Yesterday I defended my 'Habilitation à diriger des Recherches'! Thanks to those who attended! And thank you to a wonderful jury: J. Gervain, A. Calcus, I. Chitoran, J.J. Aucouturier, E. Gaudrain, C. Lorenzi.