Neurospeech Team

Light propofol anaesthesia for non-invasive auditory EEG recording in unrestrained non-human primates. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.24.644890v1

@scone-neuro.bsky.social has a great review coming soon led by @annekeitel.bsky.social. We summarize major oscillatory mechanisms and discuss open questions across a range of subfields in cog neuro. The preprint should be out soon.

/1 We took our sweet time (~3yrs) to put this into its final shape - but happy to say that the pre-print of an extensive review of brain rhythms in cognition - from a cognruro perspective - is now available. Please let us know what you think. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Brice Bathellier, directeur de recherche au CNRS, responsable de l'équipe "Dynamique du système auditif et perception multisensorielle" à l'Institut de l'Audition.

Congratulations to Brice Bathellier, (Institut Pasteur and @cnrs.fr) head of the “Auditory System Dynamics & Multisensory Perception” team at the Hearing Institute, for securing the ERC Proof of Concept 2025 for his project BRAINCODER! 👏

@bathellierlab.bsky.social

#Neuroscience

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Tinnitus perception is linked to arousal system dysfunction Tinnitus, the perception of sound in the absence of an external source, affects 14% of the population and is often associated with concentration and emotional difficulties. However, the characterizati...

New preprint from our team!

People with tinnitus often complain about attention difficulties so we made them perform several tasks (n=200). After correcting for comorbidities, no deficits in selective attention or executive functions could be observed but they exhibited poorer control of arousal.

💡 Check our new preprint (by @sophiebouton.bsky.social, w/ with @valerian-chambon.bsky.social @nargolestani.bsky.social). We organize modeling approaches based along two axes (covariance and temporal dependencies), which shapes how they align with specific scientific goals in language neuroscience.

No poster photo this time, but @fens.org Regional Meeting in Oslo was great! #FRM2025 Thank you @exppsychsoc.bsky.social for supporting me with a travel grant!

Pr Anne-Lise Giraud, Directrice Institut de l’Audition – IHU reConnect Fondation sous l’égide de l’Institut Pasteur

👏 Félicitations à Anne-Lise Giraud, Directrice de l'Institut de l'Audition – IHU reConnect, médaille d'argent du CNRS 2025 ! Une reconnaissance bien méritée pour ses travaux en neurosciences cognitives sur l'audition et le langage. @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social ↘️ www.insb.cnrs.fr/fr/personne/...

🧬 L'Institut Pasteur fait peau neuve !

Nouvelle plateforme de marque, nouvelle identité visuelle, nouvelle signature : "Pour chaque vie, la science agit" 💙

#InstitutPasteur

Very happy to share a new preprint, written with people I have learned a lot from: Paola Cerrito, Carel van Schaik, Judith Burkart, Anne-Lise Giraud (@neurospeech.bsky.social), Daphne Baverlier, @balthasarbickel.bsky.social: how the communication system of neanderthals may have differed from ours
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AI reveals how hearing, mood, and sleep predict who suffers most from tinnitus Researchers used machine learning and UK Biobank data to identify predictors of subjective tinnitus presence and severity. Hearing health was the strongest factor, but mood, sleep, and neuroticism sha...

"mood, sleep, neuroticism, and hearing emerged as key modifiable factors influencing how tinnitus is experienced, offering actionable targets for clinical intervention." From: www.news-medical.net/news/2025050... #tinnitus #keeplistening

Tinnitus risk factors and its evolution over time - Nature Communications Improving tinnitus prevention and clinical management by identifying key associated risk factors is crucial. Here, the authors use machine learning in a large cohort to identify key predictors of tinn...

Our new @NatureComms paper: We used UK Biobank data (n≈193K) to build ML models predicting tinnitus presence (driven by hearing health) and severity (influenced by mood, neuroticism & sleep). A simple 6-item POST questionnaire forecasts 9-yr outcomes. shorturl.at/4AF4P

Tinnitus risk factors and its evolution over time - Nature Communications Improving tinnitus prevention and clinical management by identifying key associated risk factors is crucial. Here, the authors use machine learning in a large cohort to identify key predictors of tinn...

Check out the new publication in @natcomms.nature.com by L. Hobeika & S. Samson (coll. w/ @evp82.bsky.social). ML models trained on a large database reveal the risk factors for tinnitus presence and severity, and helped to design a 6-item questionnaire to predict clinical outcomes. #tinnitus

🧠 Environ 7% des écoliers français sont touchés par la dyslexie, trouble du neurodéveloppement qui affecte la lecture.
Ludovica Veggiotti, neuropsychologue, revient sur l’étude clinique RnDys menée dans notre équipe.

Contributing however we can, even if it means posing for a photo 😁😁

Warm and Fuzzy: Perceptual Semantics Can Be Activated Even During Shallow Lexical Processing | Request PDF Request PDF | Warm and Fuzzy: Perceptual Semantics Can Be Activated Even During Shallow Lexical Processing | According to the embodied cognition view, activation of perceptual semantics (such as visua...

🔍🧠 Words don’t just have meaning – they feel different in your brain!

Our new study shows that even in quick word tasks, sensory meanings light up: Seeing “white” in our mind is faster than feeling “warm”.

But why do some senses dominate while others lag behind?

Find out more in our new study👇🏼

Anne-Lise Giraud était sur France Culture pour une discussion autour des interfaces cerveau-machine et de l'importance d'entraîner les humains à interagir avec ces technologies, que l'on soit pour ou contre, notamment dans le contexte d'une nouvelle étude publiée. Réécoutez ici: lnkd.in/e_VqegHy

YouTube video by Le Point Certaines formes de surdité seront bientôt guéries

Ainsi que la captation vidéo ⬇️

Thérapie génique, implants, médicaments… Ces progrès de la recherche médicale pour soigner la surdité De plus en plus de personnes, même jeunes, sont victimes d’une déficience auditive. Des solutions existent pourtant. Un sujet abordé à Nice lors de l’événement Neuroplanète.

Le 8 mars, Anne-Lise Giraud et Diane Lazard discutaient des progrès de la recherche médicale pour soigner la surdité lors de la conférence Neuroplanète à Nice. Retrouvez l'article du Point résumant l'événement ⬇️

Trois membres de notre équipe étaient au workshop TEMPOMEGA à Caen. Merci encore aux organisateurs et aux intervenants!

Decoding our thoughts to restore speech The team led by Anne-Lise Giraud at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) shows that individual training improves brain-machinedecoding of imagined speech, offering new hope for people with language disord...

And from the Institut de l'Audition: www.institut-audition.fr/en/post/deco...

With the press release from the Université de Genève: www.unige.ch/medecine/en/...

Learning to operate an imagined speech Brain-Computer Interface involves the spatial and frequency tuning of neural activity - Communications Biology Training to operate a brain-computer interface for decoding imagined speech from non-invasive EEG improves control performance and induces dynamic changes in brain oscillations crucial for speech proc...

Individual training improves brain-machine
decoding of imagined speech, offering new hope for people with language disorders. Check the new publication by K. Bhadra, A-L. Giraud and S. Marchesotti (@sissymarche.bsky.social) in Communications Biology: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Looking forward to spending time @pasteur.fr this week. Talk on ancient DNA, brain evolution & organoids on Thursday. Thanks Anne-Lise Giraud for the invite

Atypical audio-visual neural synchrony and speech processing in early autism - Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders Background Children with Autism Spectrum disorder (ASD) often exhibit communication difficulties that may stem from basic auditory temporal integration impairment but also be aggravated by an audio-vi...

How a disruption of audio-visual temporal integration can impact speech perception in autism? Here with EEG, we explore neural oscillations of ASD and TD 3-years old children during cartoon watching.

Check our new paper by Xiaoyue Wang (coll. with Geneva's Autism Brain & Behavior Lab) ⬇️

Speech: a skeleton for thought? Comment on “The Sound of Thought: Form Matters – The Prosody of Inner Speech” by Hamutal Kreiner, Zohar Eviatar

A new review paper by Anne-Lise Giraud in press below ⬇️

The NeuroSpeech team is interested in understanding the computations that enable our brain to perceive and produce speech from a fundamental perspective in order to design targeted therapies for neurodevelopmental and acquired speech disorders.

More info about us and our projects ⬇️