We care about open science. Because our research is almost entirely publicly funded, and because all our permanent and non-permanent positions are civil servants part of the public sector, we believe it is a moral commitment to make our results accessible for free at all levels of society. This includes publications (open-access) but also research material, stimuli, data, and software.

Click on the banners below for direct access to the PDFs of the papers;
on for a link to the project’s code hosted on the group’s github page;
and on for a link to the associated research data (stimuli and results).

Our overt objective with the following is that 100% of our publications are associated with all three banners. If one is missing for a specific project, there’s a good chance that we’re working on it - do feel free to request as you need.

In addition to resources specific to papers below, we also develop and maintain a number of open-source research software, including reverse-correlation toolbox CLEESE and vocal-feedback plateform DAVID, which can be found on our Resources page.

2024

Aligning the smiles of dating dyads causally increases attraction
Arias-Sarah, P., Bedoya, D., Daube, C., Aucouturier, JJ., Hall, L., Johansson, P.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121 (45), e2400369121

Emotional contagion to vocal smile revealed by combined pupil reactivity and motor resonance Merchie, A., Ranty, Z., Aguillon-Hernandez, N., Aucouturier, JJ., Wardak, C., Gomot, M.
Scientific Reports 14 (1), 25043

Neural adaptation to changes in self-voice during puberty
Pinheiro, A., Aucouturier, JJ & Kotz, Sonja.
Trends in Neurosciences, August 2024.

Cortical responses to looming sources are explained away by the auditory periphery
Benghanem, S., Guha, R., Pruvost-Robieux, E., Levi-Strauss, J., Joucla, C., Cariou, A., Gavaret, M. & Aucouturier, J. J.
Cortex. Vol. 177, 2024.

A simple psychophysical procedure separates representational and noise components in impairments of speech prosody perception after right-hemisphere stroke
Adl Zarrabi, A., Jeulin, M., Bardet, P., Commère, P., Naccache, L., Aucouturier, J. J. & Villain, M..
Scientific Reports volume 14 (15194), 2024.

Mmm whatcha say? Uncovering distal and proximal context effects in first and second-language word perception using psychophysical reverse correlation
Tuttösi, P., Yeung, H.H., Wang, Y., Wang, F., Denis, G., Aucouturier, JJ. & Lim, A.
Interspeech, 2024.

Social affective inferences in the era of AI filters: towards the Bayesian reshaping of human sociality?
Guerouaou, N., Vaiva, G. & Aucouturier, JJ.
OSF Preprints, 2024.

Intact Representation of Vocal Smile in Autism: A reverse correlation approach
Merchie, A., Ranty, Z., Adl Zarrabi, A., Bonnet-Brilhault, F., Houy-Durand, E., Aucouturier, JJ. & Gomot, M.
PsyArXiv Preprints, 2024.

2023

Pupil dilation reflects the dynamic integration of audiovisual emotional speech
Arias Sarah, P., Hall, L., Saitovitch, A., Aucouturier, J. J., Zilbovicius, M., & Johansson, P.
Scientific reports, 13(1), 5507, 2023.

Algorithmic voice transformations reveal the phonological basis of language-familiarity effects in cross-cultural emotion judgments
Nakai, T., Rachman, L., Arias Sarah, P., Okanoya, K., & Aucouturier, J.J.
Plos one, 18(5), e0285028, 2023.

Combining GAN with reverse correlation to construct personalized facial expressions
Yan, S., Soladié, C., Aucouturier, J. J., & Seguier, R.
Plos one, 18(8), e0290612, 2023.

The implicit influence of pitch contours and emotional timbre on P300 components in an own-name oddball paradigm
Pruvost-Robieux, E., Joucla, C., Benghanem, S., Guha, R., Liuni, M., Gavaret, M. & Aucouturier, JJ
bioRxiv 2023.11.30.569381.

The psychophysics of empathy: Using reverse-correlation to quantify the overlap between self & other representations of emotional expressions
Zaied, S, Soladié, C. & Aucouturier, J.J.
PsyArXiv rdmve, 2023.

Cracking the pitch code of music-motor synchronization using data-driven methods
Migotti, L., Decultot, Q., Grailhe, P. & Aucouturier, J. J.
PsyArXiv zkbn3, 2023.

2022

Three simple steps to improve the interpretability of EEG-SVM studies
Coralie Joucla, Damien Gabriel, Juan-Pablo Ortega & Emmanuel Haffen
Journal of Neurophysiology, 2022

It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it: a retrospective study of the impact of prosody on own-name P300 in comatose patients
Estelle Pruvost-Robieux, Nathalie André-Obadia, Angela Marchi, Tarek Sharshar, Marco Liuni, Martine Gavaret & Jean-Julien Aucouturier
Clinical Neurophysiology, vol. 135, 2022

2021

The shallow of your smile: the ethics of expressive vocal deep-fakes
Nadia Guerouaou, Guillaume Vaiva & JJ Aucouturier
Philosophical Transations of the Royal Society B, vol. 377 (1841), 2021

Even violins can cry: specifically vocal emotional behaviours also drive the perception of emotions in non-vocal music
Daniel Bedoya, Pablo Arias, Laura Rachman, Marco Liuni, Clément Canonne, Louise Goupil & JJ Aucouturier
Philosophical Transations of the Royal Society B, vol. 376(1840), 2021

Facial mimicry in the congenitally blind
Pablo Arias, Caren Bellmann & JJ Aucouturier
Current Biology, vol. 31(19), PR1112-R1114 (2021)

Distinct signatures of subjective confidence and objective accuracy in speech prosody
Louise Goupil & JJ Aucouturier
Cognition, vol. 212, 104661 (2021)

Vocal signals only impact speakers’ own emotions when they are self-attributed
Louise Goupil, Petter Johansson, Lars Hall & JJ Aucouturier
Consciousness & Cognition, vol. 88, 103072 (2021)

Listeners perception of certainty and honesty of another speaker is associated with a common prosodic signature
Louise Goupil, Emmanuel Ponsot, Daniel Richardson, Gabriel Reyes & JJ Aucouturier
Nature Communications, vol. 12, 861 (2021)

2016 - 2020

Note: Articles published before 2020 correspond to work conducted in the CREAM music neuroscience team in IRCAM. We list here a selection of publications that are important to our current research. For a complete list of publications on music cognition and vocal emotions from the CREAM team (2016-2020), see the CREAM archive page. For even earlier work on machine learning and audio signal processing, see JJA’s Google Scholar page.

CLEESE: An open-source audio-transformation toolbox for data-driven experiments in speech and music cognition
Juan Jose Burred, Emmanuel Ponsot, Louise Goupil, Marco Liuni & JJ Aucouturier
PLoS one, 14(4), e0205943, 2019

Cracking the social code of speech prosody using reverse correlation
Emmanuel Ponsot, Juan Jose Burred, Pascal Belin & JJ Aucouturier
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 115 (15) 3972-3977, 2018

Uncovering mental representations of smiled speech using reverse correlation
Emmanuel Ponsot, Pablo Arias & JJ Aucouturier
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol 143 (1), 2018.

DAVID: An open-source platform for real-time transformation of infra-segmental emotional cues in running speech
Laura Rachman, Marco Liuni, Pablo Arias, Andreas Lind, Petter Johansson, Lars Hall, Daniel Richardson, Katsumi Watanabe, Stéphanie Dubal & JJ Aucouturier
Behaviour Research Methods, vol. 50(1), 323–343, 2017

Covert Digital Manipulation of Vocal Emotion Alter Speakers’ Emotional State in a Congruent Direction
JJ Aucouturier, Petter Johansson, Lars Hall, Rodrigo Segnini, Lolita Mercadié & Katsumi Watanabe
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 113 no. 4, 2016

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