Jean‐Julien Aucouturier

This study shows that early auditory brain regions encode decision-related signals rather than stimulus features during a social voice decision task with low-salience cues.

The paper introduces a stochastic dynamical model to capture bistable dynamics during sleep onset and shows its parameters correlate with subjective sleepiness reports.

The paper shows that cortical responses to looming and receding sounds are largely explained by nonlinear encoding in the auditory periphery, not top-down processing.

This study investigates how pitch contours and emotional timbre in speech affect P300 components in an own-name oddball paradigm, finding that rising pitch contours reduce P300 responses.

The paper investigates why metal music fans enjoy extreme music despite its similarity to threat signals, finding that their appreciation depends on higher-order cognition rather than different low-level threat responses.

The paper shows that expressive changes in others' voices elicit faster and stronger neural responses than similar changes in self-produced voices, suggesting greater attention to socially relevant signals.

CLEESE is an open-source audio-transformation toolbox that randomizes prosody/melody in speech and music recordings to study cognitive processing.

This study shows that native-language advantages in emotional cue recognition are due to unfamiliarity with speech sounds, not cultural expression differences.

This study shows that hearing one's own manipulated voice influences emotional self-perception, supporting self-perception theories.

DAVID transforms speech emotions in real-time using audio effects and is validated across four languages, offering 25 applications in behavioral sciences.