Hello everyone,
I am co-organizing a 1-day hybrid workshop on auditory perception and cognition.
The workshop will be held at Ircam (Paris) on Thursday, November 19th, 2026, as a meeting of the CNRS special group on signal and image processing (GDR IASIS). The other two organizers are Mathieu Lagrange and Thomas Hélie. The full announcement is below my signature.
Confirmed speakers:
* Henkjan Honing, University of Amsterdam
* Étienne Thoret, CNRS / Institut de
Neurosciences de la Timone
* Giorgia Cantisani, CNRS / Ircam
* Ugo Boscain, CNRS / Sorbonne Université
* Félicie Levinton, ENS Paris
Registration is free but mandatory: https://gdr-iasis.cnrs.fr/reunions/perception-et-cognition-auditive/
Important! For online registration, tick the box:
If you wish to present a poster, please write to Vincent Lostanlen at vincent.lostanlen (@) ls2n.fr as soon as possible, providing a title. Posters are preferably in English. In preparation for the day, poster presenters will be asked for a title and an “audiocarnet”: that is, an audio file of about one minute giving the sounds on which the poster is based. Please upload your audiocarnet on the HAL platform before November 7th. For examples of audiocarnets already published, see: https://hal.science/AUDIOCARNET
Please share this announcement with anyone interested, especially those of your students who might be willing to present a poster.
Sincerely,
Vincent Lostanlen.
(scientist at CNRS, affiliated to LS2N in Nantes)
Hearing remains an enigma for the biological and
medical sciences—particularly physiology, neuroscience, and
cognitive psychology. Historically, experimental protocols
regarding hearing have relied on the design of specialized
scientific instruments, especially for the synthesis and
transformation of sound stimuli. Today, in the age of big data
and high-performance computing, these protocols employ
increasingly sophisticated digital technologies. This creates
new research challenges for signal processing—not only for
digital audio signals but also for multimodal integration with
electrophysiological signals (EEG, MEG, fMRI, ECoG).
Methodologically, the field encompasses both classical
time-frequency analysis and more recent deep learning
techniques. In terms of applications, key topics include
perceptual coding and source separation, alongside specialized
areas such as assistive technologies for individuals with
disabilities or reduced autonomy.
Against this backdrop, the aim of this event is to provide an
overview of current research into auditory perception and
cognition from a signal processing perspective. We welcome
specialists from all subfields of hearing science, ranging from
neurophysiological foundations to psychological, aesthetic,
linguistic, and social dimensions. Furthermore, the scope of the
event extends beyond "machine listening" models to include a
wide range of computational models informed by knowledge of
hearing. Finally, we intend for this event to foster an exchange
between technological innovation in audio and open questions
regarding auditory perception and cognition—such as attention,
anticipation, and familiarity.