Professors, Assistant Professors and PhD students from the ENES lab are strongly involved in teaching at the Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Etienne. Our teachings include:
- Animal cognition
- Behavioural ecology
- Animal communication
- Ethology
- Physiology
- Ecology
- Information theory
- Statistics


Equipe de Neuro-Ethologie Sensorielle
BIOACOUSTICS RESEARCH LAB
2025
234.Jen Muir, Christian T. Herbst, Joseph E. Hawes, Thomas O’Mahoney and Jacob C. Dunn. Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review. The Royal Society (2025) https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0005
233.Christian T. Herbst, Isao T. Tokuda, Takeshi Nishimura, Sten Ternström, Vicky Ossio, Marcelo Levy, W. Tecumseh Fitch and Jacob C. Dunn. ‘Monkey yodels’—frequency jumps in New World monkey vocalizations greatly surpass human vocal register transitions. Royal Society (2025) https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0005
232. Floriane Fournier, Léo Perrier, Cedric Girard-Buttoz, Sumir Keenan, Tatiana Bortolato, Roman Wittig, Catherine Crockford and Florence Levrero. Emotions mediate nonlinear phenomena production in the vocalizations of two ape species. Animal Cognition (2025) https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0013
231. Holly Root-Gutteridge, Anna Korzeniowska, Victoria Ratcliffe, David Reby. Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) recognise meaningful content in monotonous streams of read speech. Animal Cognition (2025) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-025-01948-z
230. Daria Valente, Cecile Magnard, Alexis Koutseff, Hugues Patural, Celine Chauleur, David Reby and Katarzyna Pisanski. Vocal communication and perception of pain in childbirth vocalizations. Royal Society (2025) https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0009
229. Andrey Anikin, David Reby and Katarzyna Pisanski. Nonlinear vocal phenomena and speech intelligibility. Royal Society (2025) https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0254
228. Mathilde Massenet, Nicolas Mathevon, Andrey Anikin , Elodie F Briefer, W Tecumseh Fitch , David Reby. Nonlinear phenomena in vertebrate vocalizations: mechanisms and communicative functions. Royal Society (2025) https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0002
227. Siloé Corvin, Mathilde Massenet, Angélique Hardy, Hugues Patural, Roland Peyron, Camille Fauchon and Nicolas Mathevon. Nonlinear acoustic phenomena affect the perception of pain in human baby cries. Royal Society (2025) https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0023
226. Mathilde Massenet, Katarzyna Pisanski, Karine Reynaud, Nicolas Mathevon, David Reby and Andrey Anikin. Acoustic context and dynamics of nonlinear phenomena in mammalian calls: the case of puppy whines. Royal Society (2025) https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0022
225. Ryan Sigmundson, Cédric Girard-Buttoz, Auriane Le Floch, Tanit Souha Azaiez, Richard McElreath, Klaus Zuberbühler, Roman M. Wittig & Catherine Crockford. Vocal sequence diversity and length
remain stable across ontogeny in a catarrhine monkey (Cercocebus atys). communications biology (2025) https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07922-2
224. Juliette Linossier, Isabelle Charrier, Nicolas Mathevon, Caroline Casey and Colleen Reichmuth. Nonlinear phenomena in pinnipeds: a preliminary investigation in the contact calls of northern elephant seal pups. the Royal Society (2025) https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2024.0016
223. Siloé Corvin, Clément Cornec, Roland Peyron, David Reby, Camille Fauchon and Nicolas Mathevon.Old but attuned: the ability to decode babies’ cries does not decline with age. The royal society publishing (2025) https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0667
222.Elisa Demuru, Ilenia Montello, Jean-Pascal Guéry, François Pellegrino, Florence Levréro, Ivan Norscia. Tackling Hominin Tickling: Bonobos Share the Social Features and Developmental Dynamics of Play Tickling With Humans.American Journal of Primatology (2025) https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23723
221.Elisa Demuru, Edoardo Collarini, Arianna Menon, Gioia Cesarano, Jérôme Catinaud, Ivan Norscia, Giada Cordoni. Are you serious? Relaxed open mouth may unveil the competitive/cooperative nature of play fighting in two feline species. Animal Behaviour (2025) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.11.020
220.Anna Zanoli, Chiara Tenneriello, Ilaria Morandi, Francesca Terranova, Melissa Cadman, Katrin Ludynia, Nicolas Mathevon, David Reby, Livio Favaro. Acoustic cues to development of African Penguins (Spheniscus demersus) begging calls. IBIS (2025) https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13364