Acknowledgements

First and foremost, we wish to express our appreciation to the institutions that allowed us to collaborate and develop this interdisciplinary endeavor. In particular, we wish to acknowledge the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – French National Center for Scientific Research) as an institution that has hosted some of us and our projects. Since its creation in 1946, the CNRS has actively encouraged multidisciplinary cooperation between researchers, and allowed LCPE (Langages, Cognitions, Pratiques et Ergonomie) to exist as a laboratory successively affiliated to several departments/fields within CNRS. However, as any academic well knows, institutional support is necessary but not sufficient. Therefore, we also remain grateful for the (subjective) encouragement and the (objective) financial support of those who opened up their labs (and purses), including: Jacques Leplat (laboratoire de psychologie du travail), André Holley (Laboratory of olfaction and neurosciences, Lyon, France, and once in charge of the French national program in cognitive sciences), Benoist Schaal (Centre des Sciences du Goût et de l’Alimentation, Dijon, France), Catherine Rouby (Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences, Lyon, France), Jacques Lautman (Université de Provence), Blanche Noëlle Gruning (Université Paris VIII) and Mary-Annick Morel (Université Paris III, Paris, France), Sylvain Auroux (Laboratoire d’Histoire des Théories Linguistiques, Paris, France), Michèle Castellengo (Laboratoire d’Acoustique Musicale, Paris, France), Hugues Genevois (Laboratoire d’Acoustique Musicale, Paris, France), and Pascal Gaillard (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Toulouse, France).

Our current institutions and teams deserve a special mention here, for their support in allowing us to work on this long-term project. Thanks to: the Laboratoire Ligérien de Linguistique (CNRS/Université d’Orléans, Orléans, France), Junia/ISEN (Lille, France) and its acoustics team (in particular Bertrand Dubus, Anne-Christine Hladky, Isabelle Lefebvre, Laetitia Florent, and Andreas Kaiser), the Faculty Campus Fryslân at the University of Groningen, and in particular the support of the Faculty Board (Piet Bouma and Andrej Zwitter), the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT), the McGill School of Information Studies, and the Sounds in the City partnership (McGill University). We also acknowledge the financial support of funding agencies, including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, as well as the Fonds de Recherche du Québec (FRQ).

Outside of academia, people from industry (applied research) and cultural sectors also deserve warm thanks for welcoming and supporting our work: Dominique Fleury (INRETS, Paris, France), Anne Bardot (PSA, Paris, France), Sylvie Guerrand (SNCF, Paris, France), Agnès Giboreau (Paul Bocuse Research Institute, Lyon, France), Heinrich Wörtche (INCAS3, Assen, the Netherlands), Vincent Doutaut (Itemm, Le Mans, France), Stéphane Vaiedelich (Musée de la Musique, Paris, France), and Ville de Montréal.

We also want to thank our colleagues, students, friends, etc., with whom, over the course of a research project or of a conference, we have had engaging discussions, philosophical arguments, and intense debates about sensation, perception, languages, mind, body, world, physics, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, art, food, culture, and so much more: Willem Adelaar, Edwin Banegas-Flores, Lapo Boschi, Dick Botteldooren, Danielle Candel, Michèle Castellengo, Antonia Cristinoi, Catherine Dacremont, Sophie David, Hugues Genevois, Arthur Givois, Orly Goldwasser, Colette Grinevald, James Hampton, Kozo Hiramatsu, Ben Holtzman, Catherine Lavandier, Lorenza Mondada, Benoît Navarret, Gabriela Patiño-Lakatos, Pierre-Yves Raccah, François Rastier, Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp, Jacques Theureau, Bertrand Verine, Annick Weil-Barrais, Leo Wetzels, as well as all the members and collaborators of the Sounds in the City partnership.

As this book is an outgrowth from previous books, we are grateful to previous colleagues who contributed to these earlier writings, in particular Catégorisation et Cognition in 1997 (Nick Braisby, Pierre Cadiot, Michèle Castellengo, Bernard Conein, Sophie David, Benoît Fabre, Dominique Fleury, Bradley Franks, Frédérique Guyot, James Hampton, James Harris, Christian Hudelot, Annamária Lammel, Lorenza Mondada, Elisabeth Pacherie, Catherine Rouby, Gilles Sicard, Aurélie Tenin, Pierre Van Elslande); and Le Sentir et le Dire in 2009 (Catherine Dacremont, Gaëlle Delepaut, Pascal Gaillard, Agnès Giboreau, Sylvie Guerrand, Luiza Maxim, Séverine Morange, Jacques Poitevineau, Philippe Resche-Rigon, Robert Vion).

We are also very much appreciative of the colleagues who provided valuable insights on earlier drafts of this manuscript. Their advice, critique, and input helped us transform this text into the book you are currently holding in your hands. In particular, we acknowledge the great contribution of: Dominique Fleury (Chapter 2), Antonia Cristinoi (Chapter 3), Colette Grinevald (Chapters 5 and 11), Benoist Schaal (Chapter 7), Sarah Spinelli (Chapter 8), Benoît Navarret, Jean-Loïc Le Carrou and Paul Cambourian (Chapters 6 and 15), as well as Valerian Fraisse, Christopher Trudeau, Cynthia Tarlao and Daniel Steele for proofreading and assisting with the bibliography.