Etienne Thoret
@etiennetho.bsky.social
CNRS research scientist
Computational hearing
La Timone Neuroscience Institute, Aix-Marseille University
Computational hearing
La Timone Neuroscience Institute, Aix-Marseille University
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My book "The Brain, in Theory" on the publisher's website (out in April 2026):
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
The Brain, In Theory
Why engineering and computational analogies are poorly suited to the study of biological cognition
press.princeton.edu
November 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
My book "The Brain, in Theory" on the publisher's website (out in April 2026):
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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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...
"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...
Domaines émergents en traitement du signal audionumérique : éco-acoustique, environnements urbains, industriels et médicaux - GdR IASIS
Informations pratiques (English version below) Éthologie, écologie, géographie urbaine, génie industriel et génie biomédical sont autant de disciplines qui valorisent le son comme information. Longtem...
gdr-iasis.cnrs.fr
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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...
"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...
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We got the cover 🎉🎉 🎉 ! Beautiful artwork from the talented Carole Marchese, PhD student in my lab.
November 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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.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).
🧵👇
October 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Super cool work with striking hypotheses, original methods, and nice conclusions ⏬⏬⏬
Reposted by Etienne Thoret
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.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).
🧵👇
October 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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.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).
🧵👇
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/...
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/...
Voice identity invariance by anterior temporal lobe neurons
Neurons in the macaque temporal lobe recognize callers despite acoustical variation.
www.science.org
September 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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/...
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/...
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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 🪶
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 🪶
August 2, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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 🪶
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 🪶
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#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/...
➡️ www.ins2i.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
July 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#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/...
➡️ www.ins2i.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
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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!
"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!
June 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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!
"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!
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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
tinyurl.com/3y2nvpr9
Sound offset responses become highly informative in the auditory cortex
The entire auditory system downstream of the cochlea features pronounced offset responses, which follow the termination of sounds. Because of their ubiquity, it is still an unsolved question whether o...
tinyurl.com
May 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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
tinyurl.com/3y2nvpr9
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🚀 #ILCB #SummerSchool 2025 – Apply Now! 🌞🧠
Join us Sept 1-5, 2025 at CIRM, Marseille to explore Language, Cognition & the Brain!
🗣 Language & Cognition | 🧠 Neuroscience
🤖 AI & Machine Learning | 📊 Math & Stats
📅 Apply by May 23 → www.ilcb.fr/2025-2/
Know someone interested? Tag & share! 📢
Join us Sept 1-5, 2025 at CIRM, Marseille to explore Language, Cognition & the Brain!
🗣 Language & Cognition | 🧠 Neuroscience
🤖 AI & Machine Learning | 📊 Math & Stats
📅 Apply by May 23 → www.ilcb.fr/2025-2/
Know someone interested? Tag & share! 📢
The 8th edition of the Institute of Language, Communication, and the Brain (ILCB) Summer School 2025 | ILCB
Monday, September 1st – Friday, September 5th, 2025
www.ilcb.fr
March 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
🚀 #ILCB #SummerSchool 2025 – Apply Now! 🌞🧠
Join us Sept 1-5, 2025 at CIRM, Marseille to explore Language, Cognition & the Brain!
🗣 Language & Cognition | 🧠 Neuroscience
🤖 AI & Machine Learning | 📊 Math & Stats
📅 Apply by May 23 → www.ilcb.fr/2025-2/
Know someone interested? Tag & share! 📢
Join us Sept 1-5, 2025 at CIRM, Marseille to explore Language, Cognition & the Brain!
🗣 Language & Cognition | 🧠 Neuroscience
🤖 AI & Machine Learning | 📊 Math & Stats
📅 Apply by May 23 → www.ilcb.fr/2025-2/
Know someone interested? Tag & share! 📢
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Register now for our interdisciplinary summer school on “Language, Communication, and the Brain” — featuring outstanding teachers, a blend of theoretical and methodological courses, and plenty of fun!
🚀 #ILCB #SummerSchool 2025 – Apply Now! 🌞🧠
Join us Sept 1-5, 2025 at CIRM, Marseille to explore Language, Cognition & the Brain!
🗣 Language & Cognition | 🧠 Neuroscience
🤖 AI & Machine Learning | 📊 Math & Stats
📅 Apply by May 23 → www.ilcb.fr/2025-2/
Know someone interested? Tag & share! 📢
Join us Sept 1-5, 2025 at CIRM, Marseille to explore Language, Cognition & the Brain!
🗣 Language & Cognition | 🧠 Neuroscience
🤖 AI & Machine Learning | 📊 Math & Stats
📅 Apply by May 23 → www.ilcb.fr/2025-2/
Know someone interested? Tag & share! 📢
The 8th edition of the Institute of Language, Communication, and the Brain (ILCB) Summer School 2025 | ILCB
Monday, September 1st – Friday, September 5th, 2025
www.ilcb.fr
May 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Register now for our interdisciplinary summer school on “Language, Communication, and the Brain” — featuring outstanding teachers, a blend of theoretical and methodological courses, and plenty of fun!
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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
🧵👇
👂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
🧵👇
April 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
📢 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
🧵👇
👂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
🧵👇
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Ce matin j’ai goûté le flan d’une petite pâtisserie bordelaise. C’est vraiment pas mal.
Chouette Patisserie vous connaissez la team ?
Chouette Patisserie vous connaissez la team ?
February 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Ce matin j’ai goûté le flan d’une petite pâtisserie bordelaise. C’est vraiment pas mal.
Chouette Patisserie vous connaissez la team ?
Chouette Patisserie vous connaissez la team ?
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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
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
February 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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
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
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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 ! 🎙️⤵️
pour ce podcast à plusieurs voix signé Pierre-Yves Georges
heureuse écoute ! 🎙️⤵️
L’intelligence artificielle est partout, y compris dans le domaine musical. Les usages sont nombreux et les inquiétudes aussi. Voici notre nouveau podcast "Musique et IA", en 8 épisodes, à écouter dès maintenant @francemusique.fr
▶️ www.radiofrance.fr/francemusiqu...
▶️ www.radiofrance.fr/francemusiqu...
January 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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 ! 🎙️⤵️
pour ce podcast à plusieurs voix signé Pierre-Yves Georges
heureuse écoute ! 🎙️⤵️
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🚨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 👇
"A polar coordinate system represents syntax in large language models",
📄: Paper arxiv.org/abs/2412.05571
🪧: Poster tomorrow: neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
🧵: Thread 👇
December 12, 2024 at 2:25 PM
🚨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 👇
"A polar coordinate system represents syntax in large language models",
📄: Paper arxiv.org/abs/2412.05571
🪧: Poster tomorrow: neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
🧵: Thread 👇
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!! 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.
Info: neuro-team-femto.github.io/2024/04/19/f...
Deadline: May 2025. Start date: Sept 2025.
December 9, 2024 at 11:43 AM
!! 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.
Info: neuro-team-femto.github.io/2024/04/19/f...
Deadline: May 2025. Start date: Sept 2025.
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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...
April 22, 2024 at 5:31 AM
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...
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Excited to share new work from my previous postdoc where we used the action-mode switching paradigm to test whether typing imagery involves the inhibition of typing acts.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence
Preprint available at: osf.io/preprints/ps...
#psychscisky #neuroskyence
Preprint available at: osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
February 6, 2024 at 7:28 AM
Excited to share new work from my previous postdoc where we used the action-mode switching paradigm to test whether typing imagery involves the inhibition of typing acts.
#psychscisky #neuroskyence
Preprint available at: osf.io/preprints/ps...
#psychscisky #neuroskyence
Preprint available at: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Happy to share this preprint from the outstanding Corentin Bernard works. He delves into the vibrotactile perception of noisy vibrations and observes that the balance between high and low frequencies is used to judge the similarity between two vibrations: arxiv.org/abs/2311.10644
November 26, 2023 at 3:06 PM
Happy to share this preprint from the outstanding Corentin Bernard works. He delves into the vibrotactile perception of noisy vibrations and observes that the balance between high and low frequencies is used to judge the similarity between two vibrations: arxiv.org/abs/2311.10644
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We’re very happy to share our latest study:
‘Brain decoding: toward real-time reconstruction of visual perception’
led by Yohann Benchetrit and Hubert Banville
- paper: ai.meta.com/static-resou...
- blog (with videos!): ai.meta.com/blog/brain-a...
‘Brain decoding: toward real-time reconstruction of visual perception’
led by Yohann Benchetrit and Hubert Banville
- paper: ai.meta.com/static-resou...
- blog (with videos!): ai.meta.com/blog/brain-a...
October 18, 2023 at 2:47 PM
We’re very happy to share our latest study:
‘Brain decoding: toward real-time reconstruction of visual perception’
led by Yohann Benchetrit and Hubert Banville
- paper: ai.meta.com/static-resou...
- blog (with videos!): ai.meta.com/blog/brain-a...
‘Brain decoding: toward real-time reconstruction of visual perception’
led by Yohann Benchetrit and Hubert Banville
- paper: ai.meta.com/static-resou...
- blog (with videos!): ai.meta.com/blog/brain-a...
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Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Is song processing distinct and special in the auditory cortex?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Is song processing distinct and special in the auditory cortex?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com
October 13, 2023 at 10:44 AM
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Is song processing distinct and special in the auditory cortex?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Is song processing distinct and special in the auditory cortex?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...