PhD Student at both DDL & ENES Laboratories. Currently I am focused on human non-verbal vocalisations (e.g. cries, moans, laughs). I look at their acoustic features and perception across human societies. My main research interests include the evolution of acoustic communication, vocal learning and acoustic perception/production abilities in mammals.

FORMATION ET PARCOURS PROFESSIONNEL

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
2022-Currently PhD Student. DDL Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage and ENES Bioacoustics Research Laboratory (France). Advisor: Dr. Katarzyna Pisanski and Prof. David Reby.
2022-(paused) MSc. in Biostatistics and bioinformatics. Part-time online programme. University Oberta de Catalunya and University of Barcelona (Spain)
2019-2021 MSc. in Ethology, Animal and Human Behaviour With high honours. University of Rennes 1 (France)

ACTIVITÉS SCIENTIFIQUES

CONFERENCE & SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS
2021 Acoustic adaptation of vocal repertoires across mongooses Oral presentation. Animal Behaviour Seminar, Zürich, Switzerland
2023 Do nonverbal vocalisations differ across human cultures? Oral presentation. ENES symposium, Saint Etienne, France
2023 Do nonverbal vocalisations differ across human cultures? Oral presentation. International Bioacoustics Congress (IBAC), Sapporo, Japan
PUBLISHED PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Testing the acoustic adaptation hypothesis with vocalisations from three mongoose species. A García Arasco, M Manser, S Watson, S Kyabulima, AN Radford, M Cant, M Garcia Animal Behaviour, 187, 71-95 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.02.016)

DISTINCTIONS OU FINANCEMENTS

GRANTS AND AWARDS
Projet NONVERBCROSS Grant CNRS - LabEx ASLAN (Lyon, FR) URL: https://aslan.universite-lyon.fr/medias/fichier/ficheprojet-nonverbcross-fr_1713187634263-pdf
Non-verbal vocalisations in a cross-cultural ethological perspective Award International Society for Human Ethology (NC, NC, US)

PRINCIPALES PUBLICATIONS ET CONFÉRENCES

Ponsonnet, M., Coupé, C., Pellegrino, F., Garcia Arasco, A. & Pisanski, K., 2024, "Vowel signatures in emotional interjections and nonlinguistic vocalizations expressing pain, disgust, and joy across languages", The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 156:5