Léo Varnet
@leovarnet.bsky.social
CNRS researcher at École normale supérieure Paris. Auditory perception, psycholinguistics, hearing loss.
Mastodon: @LeoVarnet@fediscience.org
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Léo Varnet
@leovarnet.bsky.social
· Dec 29
Bonjour Bluesky ! Pour l'instant je ne posterai ici que les sorties d'articles ou de billets de blog. Pour des nouvelles plus régulières sur mes recherches, vous pouvez me suivre sur Mastodon : @LeoVarnet@fediscience.org
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To wrap up #SPIN2026 in a playful way, I prepared a psycholinguistics-related blind test for the last evening event. The goal was to identify both the song and type of signal processing that was applied to it. Let's see if you can solve these ⬇️
That's it, #SPIN2026 is over, thank you to all attendees for two great days of thought-provoking talks, amazing poster sessions... and actual speech-in-noise demo during coffee breaks!
January 16, 2026 at 8:04 AM
To wrap up #SPIN2026 in a playful way, I prepared a psycholinguistics-related blind test for the last evening event. The goal was to identify both the song and type of signal processing that was applied to it. Let's see if you can solve these ⬇️
The Speech in Noise (SpiN) workshop, a two-day scientific meeting which brings together researchers from several European hearing-research groups working on speech-related topics. 2026.speech-in-noise.eu?p=informatio...
SpiN2026 - 17th Speech in Noise Workshop - Paris, France
The SpiN workshop is organized every year by a European research group within the speech and hearing community, and consists of two days of talks by invited speakers (PhD students, postdocs, and princ...
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January 16, 2026 at 8:20 AM
The Speech in Noise (SpiN) workshop, a two-day scientific meeting which brings together researchers from several European hearing-research groups working on speech-related topics. 2026.speech-in-noise.eu?p=informatio...
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January 16, 2026 at 8:05 AM
To wrap up #SPIN2026 in a playful way, I prepared a psycholinguistics-related blind test for the last evening event. The goal was to identify both the song and type of signal processing that was applied to it. Let's see if you can solve these ⬇️
That's it, #SPIN2026 is over, thank you to all attendees for two great days of thought-provoking talks, amazing poster sessions... and actual speech-in-noise demo during coffee breaks!
January 16, 2026 at 8:04 AM
To wrap up #SPIN2026 in a playful way, I prepared a psycholinguistics-related blind test for the last evening event. The goal was to identify both the song and type of signal processing that was applied to it. Let's see if you can solve these ⬇️
That's it, #SPIN2026 is over, thank you to all attendees for two great days of thought-provoking talks, amazing poster sessions... and actual speech-in-noise demo during coffee breaks!
January 15, 2026 at 9:17 AM
That's it, #SPIN2026 is over, thank you to all attendees for two great days of thought-provoking talks, amazing poster sessions... and actual speech-in-noise demo during coffee breaks!
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With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
January 9, 2026 at 1:27 AM
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
The program booklet for the SpiN workshop is now ready to download! Two days of intense discussions on psychoacoustics and psycholinguistics await at ENS Paris next week! https://2026.speech-in-noise.eu/files/SPIN2026-Programme.pdf
January 8, 2026 at 4:52 PM
The program booklet for the SpiN workshop is now ready to download! Two days of intense discussions on psychoacoustics and psycholinguistics await at ENS Paris next week! https://2026.speech-in-noise.eu/files/SPIN2026-Programme.pdf
I gave it my best shot, but the 'Longest Experiment of the Year' award from the @lsp-ens.bsky.social slipped through my fingers this year... Congratulations to the winners!
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There were many categories for the "Longest Experiment of the Year" price
There were many categories for the "Longest Experiment of the Year" price
December 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I gave it my best shot, but the 'Longest Experiment of the Year' award from the @lsp-ens.bsky.social slipped through my fingers this year... Congratulations to the winners!
L'écriture de mon manuel de psychoacoustique #openaccess avance bien : chapitre 1 (méthodologie de la psychophysique) terminé, chapitre 2 (physiologie du système auditif) terminé pour ce qui concerne le système auditif périphérique, j'attaque le chapitre 4 !
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Bienvenue ! — Psychoacoustique et perception auditive, une introduction
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December 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
L'écriture de mon manuel de psychoacoustique #openaccess avance bien : chapitre 1 (méthodologie de la psychophysique) terminé, chapitre 2 (physiologie du système auditif) terminé pour ce qui concerne le système auditif périphérique, j'attaque le chapitre 4 !
leovarnet.github.io/psychoac-man...
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The toolbox is openly available on Zenodo (zenodo.org/records/7888...) and hosted on GitHub (github.com/LeoVarnet/fa...). Feel free to download it, try it on your stimuli, and use it to address your own research questions!
fastACI toolbox: the MATLAB toolbox for investigating auditory perception using reverse correlation
This is a new release of the fastACI toolbox: the MATLAB toolbox for investigating auditory perception using reverse correlation. The current release includes scripts for the replication and reproduct...
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November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The toolbox is openly available on Zenodo (zenodo.org/records/7888...) and hosted on GitHub (github.com/LeoVarnet/fa...). Feel free to download it, try it on your stimuli, and use it to address your own research questions!
Many different experiments are included natively in the toolbox (in particular you can run the experiments from all our previous studies). We also conducted a replication of a 50-year-old experiment to demonstrate the versatility of the toolbox.
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Many different experiments are included natively in the toolbox (in particular you can run the experiments from all our previous studies). We also conducted a replication of a 50-year-old experiment to demonstrate the versatility of the toolbox.
The toolbox is also designed to be as “plug-and-play” as possible, allowing researchers unfamiliar with the reverse-correlation approach to easily apply it to their own research questions. Finally, fastACI is open source, supporting transparent, replicable, and computationally reproducible research.
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The toolbox is also designed to be as “plug-and-play” as possible, allowing researchers unfamiliar with the reverse-correlation approach to easily apply it to their own research questions. Finally, fastACI is open source, supporting transparent, replicable, and computationally reproducible research.
By integrating all these options within a consistent and flexible framework, the fastACI toolbox enables, for the first time, systematic comparisons across different configurations.
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
By integrating all these options within a consistent and flexible framework, the fastACI toolbox enables, for the first time, systematic comparisons across different configurations.
However, these studies have differed substantially in both their experimental implementations and their analysis pipelines. This lack of standardization has made it difficult to compare findings across studies and has limited reproducibility.
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
However, these studies have differed substantially in both their experimental implementations and their analysis pipelines. This lack of standardization has made it difficult to compare findings across studies and has limited reproducibility.
The auditory reverse-correlation technique has become increasingly popular in psychoacoustic research over the past decade, with applications spanning loudness perception, tone-in-noise detection, phoneme comprehension, sentence recognition, etc... (see dbao.leo-varnet.fr/2020/12/03/a...)
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The auditory reverse-correlation technique has become increasingly popular in psychoacoustic research over the past decade, with applications spanning loudness perception, tone-in-noise detection, phoneme comprehension, sentence recognition, etc... (see dbao.leo-varnet.fr/2020/12/03/a...)