I am pleased to invite applications for an M2 internship opportunity under my supervision at the LaPsyDÉ (CNRS/U Paris Cité).

The cochlea — the peripheral sensory organ for hearing — encodes sound into action potentials, which are then transmitted via the auditory nerve to the auditory brain for sound processing and analysis. Biophysically realistic computational models of the cochlea and auditory nerve have been developed over several decades and are now well established. Unlike artificial neural networks, these models are grounded in biological realism, replicating the actual stages of sound processing and offering valuable insights into both normal auditory function and its dysfunctions.

We are looking for a motivated master’s student (M1 or M2) to join the DreamTeam at the Institut du Cerveau to work on the SOMPARK project – a large, multi-centre observational study focused on sleep neurophysiology and clinical/cognitive profiles in patients with Parkinson’s disease and REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD), a known risk factor for developing Parkinson’s or other neurodegenerative diseases.

In western countries, people report holding fewer racist and sexist attitudes than a decade ago, yet discrimination and inequalities persist (Charlesworth and Banaji 2022). This issue can be examined at two interrelated levels: the systemic roots of racism and sexism, well-documented by sociological research, and the individual-level reproduction of inequalities through implicit associations between appearance or group membership and traits, beliefs or attitudes, which can bias behavior. To fight discrimination and inequalities, it is crucial to address both levels.

Emotions significantly influence decision-making, shaping how individuals perceive and respond to their environment. While there is consensus among emotion theorists that emotions and actions are interconnected, the precise nature of this relationship remains a subject of debate (Moors et al., 2017; Ledoux and Daw 2018).

Scientific context With ageing, there is an increasing incidence of balance [1] and mobility [2] impairments, causing dramatic impact on health and quality of life [3]. Despite extensive study in the last thirty years, the laboratory and clinical measures of balance that have been developed are poorly predictive of fall risk, with very disparate reported levels of sensitivity, specificity and accuracy [4]. Our previous work shows that this may be because such studies neglect older adults’ inability to adapt postural control [5].

We are recruiting two highly motivated Master 2 students for a 5–6-month internship in the Human and Artificial Perception group at the Institut de l’Audition.

Background The Institut Lyfe Research Center is dedicated to the study of the various factors (social, economic, cognitive and physiological) that underlie and influence human eating behavior. This internship is part of an interdisciplinary research project aimed at measuring the influence of gender stereotypes on food preferences. Recent research has shown that men consume significantly more meat, while women prefer vegetables (Stanley, Day, & Brown, 2023), behaviors influenced by gendered social norms rather than actual nutritional needs (European Commision, 2020, updated 2021).

The aim of the internship is to better characterize the interactions between bodily signals and conscious perception: how does the neural processing of visceral signals, like heartbeats or the stomach’s activity, influence our perception of the external world? The internship will include the development of a novel experimental paradigm as well as EEG data collection and data analysis. Programming skills will be required, with either previous experience or a willingness to develop such skills.