We examined neural bases of the brain processes (using Event Related Potentials method) involved in the categorization and conceptual priming protocols, in which special care...
Perception of motion is here studied for monophonic, abstract sounds, in the case of biological movement and in multimodal situations (e.g. driving a car)...
Synthesis models are here developed for woodwinds (flutes and clarinets), string instruments (guitar, piano) and percussive instruments (xylophone and drums). Sound control is studied...
Analysis-synthesis approaches are here used to identify and extract timbre descriptors that at best characterize evocations induced by sounds. Perceptual evaluations are correlated with...
Schizophrenia : sounds can constitute revelant means to investigate abnormal perceptual experiences in patients with schizophrenia. We designed calibrated environmental and abstract sounds to...
High-level controls of sound synthesis processes enabling the design of sounds from semantic labels or gestures were proposed. Inspired from the ecological approach, we...
Wavelet transforms are decompositions of arbitrary signals into localized contributions labelled by a scale parameter. Our group was involved at the very early stage...
Solid sounds are one of the main categories of environmental sounds. They are produced either by the interaction between several objects (e.g. impact, friction,...
Industrial sounds often refer to annoyance. Nevertheless, these sounds may content valuable information to be highlighted: is the car door well closed? Does the...
Sonification consists in associating data obtained by performing measurements of various kinds with sounds. The main idea is to use human beings’ natural perceptual...
Abstract sounds are sounds in which the physical sources cannot be easily recognized and are known to help subjects focus on intrinsic sound properties...
Synthesis models are here used to investigate the percpetual influence of control parameters (pressure and aperture) in clarinet performances. Perception of timbre variations in...
One of the greatest challenges in signal processing is to develop efficient signal representations allowing to describe the signal with a minimal amount of...
