Catherine Semal

Scientific articles

• Simple frequency ratios naturally make precisely perceived melodies
  Laurent Demany, Catherine Semal Daniel Pressnitzer.
  Current Biology. 2025-03-01.
  10.1016/j.cub.2025.02.030
• Nature versus nurture in the detection of sour notes
  Laurent Demany, Catherine Semal.
  PsyArXiv Preprints. 2023-12-09.
  10.31234/osf.io/ug398
• The perception of octave pitch affinity and harmonic fusion have a common origin
  Laurent Demany, Guilherme Monteiro, Catherine Semal, Shihab Shamma, Robert P. Carlyon.
  Hearing Research. 2021-02-01. : 108213.
  10.1016/j.heares.2021.108213
• Is Stress State an Important Factor in the BCI-P300 Speller Performance?
  Liliana Garcia, Maud Zak, Celestin Grenier, Solene Hanrio, Dorine Henry, Romain Randriamanantena, Catherine Semal, Jean Marc Andre, Veronique Lespinet-Najib, Ricardo Ron-Angevin.
  Advances in Computational Intelligence. 2019-01-01. : 442-454.
  10.1007/978-3-030-20521-8_37
• Automatic frequency-shift detection in the auditory system: A review of psychophysical findings.
  Laurent Demany, Catherine Semal.
  Neuroscience. 2017-09-01.
  10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.08.045
• Detecting temporal changes in acoustic scenes: The variable benefit of selective attention.
  Laurent Demany, Yann Bayle, Emilie Puginier, Catherine Semal.
  Hearing Research. 2017-09-01. 353 : 17-25.
  10.1016/j.heares.2017.07.013
• The Effect of Cochlear Damage on the Sensitivity to Harmonicity.
  Damien Bonnard, René Dauman, Catherine Semal, Laurent Demany.
  Ear and Hearing. 2017-01-01. 38(1) : 85-93.
  10.1097/aud.0000000000000356
• Pitch priming in sequences of two sounds.
  Laurent Demany, Tom Lucas, Catherine Semal.
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2016-09-01. 140(3) : 2056-2063.
  10.1121/1.4963093
• Harmonic fusion and pitch affinity: Is there a direct link?
  Damien Bonnard, René Dauman, Catherine Semal, Laurent Demany.
  Hearing Research. 2016-03-01. 333 : 247-254.
  10.1016/j.heares.2015.08.015
• A late-emerging auditory deficit in autism.
  Mayalen Erviti, Catherine Semal, Beverly A. Wright, Anouck Amestoy, Manuel P. Bouvard, Laurent Demany.
  Neuropsychology. 2015-01-01. 29(3) : 454-462.
  10.1037/neu0000162
• Auditory attention is divisible: segregated tone streams can be tracked simultaneously.
  Laurent Demany, Mayalen Erviti, Catherine Semal.
  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 2015-01-01. 41(2) : 356-363.
  10.1037/a0038932
• The auditory enhancement effect is not reflected in the 80-Hz auditory steady-state response.
  Samuele Carcagno, Christopher J. Plack, Arthur Portron, Catherine Semal, Laurent Demany.
  JARO. 2014-05-21. 15(4) : 621-630.
  10.1007/s10162-014-0455-y
• On the perception of affect in the singing voice: a study of acoustic cues.
  Pauline Mouawad, Myriam Desainte-Catherine, Anne Gégout-Petit, Catherine Semal.
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2014-01-01. : 105-121.
  10.1007/978-3-319-12976-1_7
• No Need for Templates in the Auditory Enhancement Effect.
  Samuele Carcagno, Catherine Semal, Laurent Demany.
  PLoS ONE. 2013-06-27. 8(6) : e67874.
  10.1371/journal.pone.0067874
• The perceptual enhancement of tones by frequency shifts.
  Laurent Demany, Samuele Carcagno, Catherine Semal.
  Hearing Research. 2013-04-01. 298 : 10-16.
  10.1016/j.heares.2013.01.016
• Auditory discrimination of frequency ratios: the octave singularity.
  Damien Bonnard, Christophe Micheyl, Catherine Semal, René Dauman, Laurent Demany.
  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 2013-01-01. 39(3) : 788-801.
  10.1037/a0030095
• Enhancement of increments in spectral amplitude: further evidence for a mechanism based on central adaptation.
  Samuele Carcagno, Catherine Semal, Laurent Demany.
  Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 2013-01-01. : 175-182.
  10.1007/978-1-4614-1590-9_20
• Auditory enhancement of increments in spectral amplitude stems from more than one source.
  Samuele Carcagno, Catherine Semal, Laurent Demany.
  JARO. 2012-07-06. 13(5) : 693-702.
  10.1007/s10162-012-0339-y
• A note about insensitivity to pitch-change direction.
  Samuel R. Mathias, Peter J. Bailey, Catherine Semal, Laurent Demany.
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2011-10-01. 130(4) : EL129-EL134.
  10.1121/1.3629139
• Enhancing a tone by shifting its frequency or intensity.
  Mayalen Erviti, Catherine Semal, Laurent Demany.
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2011-06-01. 129(6) : 3837-3845.
  10.1121/1.3589257
• Frequency-shift detectors bind binaural as well as monaural frequency representations.
  Samuele Carcagno, Catherine Semal, Laurent Demany.
  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 2011-01-01. 37(6) : 1976-1987.
  10.1037/a0024321
• Implicit versus explicit frequency comparisons: two mechanisms of auditory change detection.
  Laurent Demany, Catherine Semal, Daniel Pressnitzer.
  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 2011-01-01. 37(2) : 597-605.
  10.1037/a0020368
• Fundamental differences in change detection between vision and audition.
  Laurent Demany, Catherine Semal, Jean-René Cazalets, Daniel Pressnitzer.
  Exp Brain Res. 2010-04-06. 203(2) : 261-270.
  10.1007/s00221-010-2226-2
• Tuning properties of the auditory frequency-shift detectors.
  Laurent Demany, Daniel Pressnitzer, Catherine Semal.
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2009-09-01. 126(3) : 1342-1348.
  10.1121/1.3179675
• Continuous versus discrete frequency changes: different detection mechanisms?
  Laurent Demany, Robert P. Carlyon, Catherine Semal.
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2009-02-01. 125(2) : 1082-1090.
  10.1121/1.3050271
• Auditory temporal processing in Parkinson’s disease.
  Dominique Guehl, Pierre Burbaud, Christian Lorenzi, Christophe Ramos, Bernard Bioulac, Catherine Semal, Laurent Demany.
  Neuropsychologia. 2008-07-01. 46(9) : 2326-2335.
  10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.03.007
• Enhancement, adaptation, and the binaural system.
  Maja Šerman, Catherine Semal, Laurent Demany.
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2008-06-01. 123(6) : 4412-4420.
  10.1121/1.2902177
• Auditory change detection: simple sounds are not memorized better than complex sounds.
  Laurent Demany, Wiebke Trost, Maja Serman, Catherine Semal.
  Psychol Sci. 2008-01-01. 19(1) : 85-91.
  10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02050.x
• Individual differences in the sensitivity to pitch direction.
  Catherine Semal, Laurent Demany.
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2006-12-01. 120(6) : 3907-3915.
  10.1121/1.2357708
• Pitch perception and retention: two cumulative benefits of selective attention.
  Laurent Demany, Gaspard Montandon, Catherine Semal.
  Perception & Psychophysics. 2004-05-01. 66(4) : 609-617.
  10.3758/BF03194905
• Limits of rhythm perception.
  Laurent Demany, Catherine Semal.
  The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A. 2002-04-01. 55(2) : 643-657.
  10.1080/02724980143000406
• Learning to perceive pitch differences.
  Laurent Demany, Catherine Semal.
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2002-03-01. 111(3) : 1377-1388.
  10.1121/1.1445791
• Memory for pitch versus memory for loudness.
  Sylvain Clément, Laurent Demany, Catherine Semal.
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1999-11-01. 106(5) : 2805-2811.
  10.1121/1.428106
• Pitch perception: a difference between right- and left-handed listeners.
  Virginie Laguitton, Laurent Demany, Catherine Semal, Catherine Liégeois-Chauvel.
  Neuropsychologia. 1998-03-01. 36(3) : 201-207.
  10.1016/s0028-3932(97)00122-x
• Pitch perception: a difference between right- and left-handed listeners.
  Virginie Laguitton, Laurent Demany, Catherine Semal, Catherine Liégeois-Chauvel.
  Neuropsychologia. 1998-03-01. 36(3) : 201-207.
  10.1016/s0028-3932(97)00122-x
• Speech versus nonspeech in pitch memory.
  Catherine Semal, Laurent Demany, Kazuo Ueda, Pierre‐André Hallé.
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1996-08-01. 100(2) : 1132-1140.
  10.1121/1.416298
• Speech versus nonspeech in pitch memory.
  Catherine Semal, Laurent Demany, Kazuo Ueda, Pierre‐André Hallé.
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1996-08-01. 100(2) : 1132-1140.
  10.1121/1.416298
• Further evidence for an autonomous processing of pitch in auditory short-term memory.
  Catherine Semal, Laurent Demany.
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1993-09-01. 94(3) : 1315-1322.
  10.1121/1.408159
• Detection of inharmonicity in dichotic pure-tone dyads.
  Laurent Demany, Catherine Semal.
  Hearing Research. 1992-08-01. 61(1-2) : 161-166.
  10.1016/0378-5955(92)90047-q
• INTERFÉRENCES EN MÉMOIRE AUDITIVE ET PHÉNOMÈNES DE MASQUE : DES RÈGLES RADICALEMENT DIFFÉRENTES
  C. SEMAL, L. DEMANY.
  J. Phys. IV France. 1992-04-01. 02(C1) : C1-277-C1-280.
  10.1051/jp4:1992159
• Dissociation of pitch from timbre in auditory short-term memory.
  Catherine Semal, Laurent Demany.
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1991-05-01. 89(5) : 2404-2410.
  10.1121/1.400928
• Dissociation of pitch from timbre in auditory short-term memory.
  Catherine Semal, Laurent Demany.
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1991-05-01. 89(5) : 2404-2410.
  10.1121/1.400928
• Harmonic and melodic octave templates.
  Laurent Demany, Catherine Semal.
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1990-11-01. 88(5) : 2126-2135.
  10.1121/1.400109
• The effect of vibrato on the recognition of masked vowels.
  Laurent Demany, Catherine Semal.
  Perception & Psychophysics. 1990-09-01. 48(5) : 436-444.
  10.3758/bf03211587
• Detection thresholds for sinusoidal frequency modulation.
  Laurent Demany, Catherine Semal.
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1989-03-01. 85(3) : 1295-1301.
  10.1121/1.397460
• Dichotic fusion of two tones one octave apart: evidence for internal octave templates.
  Laurent Demany, Catherine Semal.
  The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1988-02-01. 83(2) : 687-695.
  10.1121/1.396164
• Early development in mice. IV. Age at disappearance of the rooting response: genetic analysis in newborn mice.
  Pierre L. Roubertoux, Laurence Baumann, Sylvie Ragueneau, Catherine Semal.
  Behav Genet. 1987-09-01. 17(5) : 453-464.
  10.1007/bf01073112
• Early development in mice: II. Sensory motor behavior and genetic analysis.
  Pierre Roubertoux, Catherine Semal, Sylvie Ragueneau.
  Physiology & Behavior. 1985-11-01. 35(5) : 659-666.
  10.1016/0031-9384(85)90393-2
• Differences in patterns of pup care in mice. V–Pup ultrasonic emissions and pup care behavior.
  C COHENSALMON, M CARLIER, P ROUBERTOUX, J JOUHANEAU, C SEMAL, M PAILLETTE.
  Physiology & Behavior. 1985-08-01. 35(2) : 167-174.
  10.1016/0031-9384(85)90331-2