Our team is dedicated to the study of vocal communication processes of animals in their natural environment.
We use a multidisciplinary approach :
- signal processing and big data analysis (sound analysis & synthesis software, noise extraction methods, localisation)
- animal behavior and cognition (use of acoustic/visual/olfactory lures to decipher recognition mechanisms, operant conditioning, multi-sensory tag attached to animals)
- imaging methods (MRI, Synchroton X-Ray)
- biological analysis (DNA, biochemical analyses such as GC-MS).
Our team belongs to the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience.
NEWS
September 2019
Participation to the 27th IBAC meeting in Brighton (UK). Plenary talk by I. Charrier on « Recognition systems and Social structure in Pinnipeds » as well as a talk on Northern elephant male vocal recognition, a talk by Juliette Linossier on the ontogeny of individual vocal recognition in Northern elephant seal mothers, and a talk by Charlène Gémard on burrowing petrel vocal communication !
August 2019
News from the field ! Amazing videos of humpback whale from Madagascar. We are studying the vocal and behavioral interactions between mothers and calves using CATS camera.