Yves Boubenec

Dr. Yves Boubenec is an Associate Professor at École Normale Supérieure (ENS)-PSL University, Paris, France. He serves as Head of the LSP Neuro Platform and Director of Studies at the Department of Cognitive Studies.

• Academic Rank: Associate Professor
• Institution: ENS-PSL
• Departments: Cognitive Studies (ENS), LSP Neuro Platform
• Email: yves.boubenec@ens.psl.eu

Research Focus: Boubenec investigates neural mechanisms of auditory perception and cognition using integrated methodologies spanning single-neuron electrophysiology to large-scale neuroimaging. His work reveals how context, learning, and multisensory interactions shape sound encoding in mammalian neocortex.

• Primary Research Themes
  • Context-dependent auditory encoding
  • Perceptual attention mechanisms
  • Task-driven neural plasticity
  • Self-supervised learning models
  • Population-level cortical dynamics
  • Human/ferret auditory comparisons

Publication Trends: Recent work (2024-2025) examines speech production networks, premotor auditory categorization, and algebraic structures in sound learning. Earlier studies (2018-2022) focus on population gating, hierarchical auditory coding, and self-voice mechanisms.

• 2025
  • Self-voice frequency analysis
  • Hierarchical ferret auditory cortex mapping
  • Temporal window constraints
• 2024
  • Premotor category hemodynamics
  • Self-supervised sound structures
  • Human speech cortical encoding

Methodological Expertise: Combines awake ferret functional UltraSound, Neuropixels recordings, and computational modeling to analyze neural representations across spatial scales. Specializes in translating animal model findings to human auditory processes.