Léo Varnet

FastACI: A Toolbox for Investigating Auditory Perception using Reverse Correlation

The paper introduces fastACI, a toolbox for auditory reverse-correlation experiments, demonstrating its use through case studies on auditory perception tasks.

Mapping the spectrotemporal regions influencing perception of French stop consonants in noise

This study identifies the spectrotemporal acoustic cues used by listeners to discriminate French stop consonants in noise, revealing cue combinations and individual variability.

Subcortical and cortical tracking of communication sound envelopes in challenging listening conditions

The paper investigates how auditory neurons track sound envelopes in noisy conditions and finds that slow amplitude modulations are better tracked, affecting discrimination performance.

Mechanisms of spectrotemporal modulation detection for normal- and hearing-impaired listeners

This study investigates how normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners detect spectrotemporal modulations using a psychophysical reverse-correlation framework and finds comparable non-linear processing strategies with differences in temporal modulation tuning.

Cortical and subcortical neurons discriminate sounds in noise on the sole basis of acoustic amplitude modulations

The paper investigates how cortical and subcortical neurons discriminate sounds in noise, finding that subcortical structures perform better than cortical ones, primarily due to the distortion of slow amplitude modulation cues.