David Sander
Function: Professeur ordinaire
Group name: Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotion
Group type: Main
Affiliations: Faculty of Psychology and Science of Education, Psychology Section
Domains: Affective and Social Neurosciences
Keywords: brain damages, Emotion, Neuropsychology
Research activities
The research program consists in investigating appraisal processes in emotion, and their effects on attention and memory, using the experimental approaches of cognitive neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience. This line of research brings together behavioral data as well as brain imaging data from healthy subjects and brain-damaged patients in order to better understand the emotional response to relevant visual, auditory, or olfactory stimuli. In particular, we test the computational profile of the human amygdala in order to constrain psychological models of emotion.
Latest publications
The role of outcome affective value in driving human Pavlovian learning.
Anatomy of a failure: a retrospective evaluation of a cognitive bias modification intervention to promote physical activity in cardiac rehabilitation.
What do teachers think about students' emotions? A mixed-method exploration of their implicit theories.
An Integrative Appraisal Model of Epistemic Curiosity.
Contact
Faculté de psychologie et sciences de l’éducation
Université de Genève
Email: David.Sander@unige.ch