Monika Riegel
Function: Assistant Professor
Nom du groupe: Coming soon
Group type: Main
Affiliations: Psychology Section
Domaines: Affective and Social Neurosciences
Mot clés: episodic memory, event segmentation, ex hormones, females’ mental health, stress hormones, time perception
Activités de recherche
Forming lasting memories of stressful events is essential for survival. However, when stressful experiences are poorly segmented in time, they can generalize, making the world constantly threatening. This mechanism is implicated in major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Critically, females are twice as likely as males to develop these disorders. Yet, most research has focused on males, overlooking the complex interplay between stress and sex hormones.
The main research objective of this group is to investigate how stress and sex hormones interact to shape the behavioral, neuroendocrine and neural underpinnings of time perception and temporal memory in females. To test it, we combine pharmacological manipulations, neuroendocrine measures, probabilistic models of sex hormonal fluctuations, with fMRI neuroimaging and neuromodulation, in healthy and clinical populations.
Studying stress and cognition in females is timely and important for society. By entering this wide-open field, this project will advance science across disciplines, inform female’s health and pave the way to developing better, sex- and hormone-specific interventions.
Dernières publications
Distinct cortisol effects on item and associative memory across memory phases.
Opposite effects of emotion and event segmentation on temporal order memory and object-context binding.
Emotion schema effects on associative memory differ across emotion categories at the behavioural, physiological and neural level: Emotion schema effects on associative memory differs for disgust and fear.
Distinct medial-tempora lobe mechanisms of encoding and amygdala-mediated memory reinstatement for disgust and fear.
Contact
Monika Riegel
Faculty of Psychology
Monika.Riegel@unige.ch