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
Computational analysis, appraised concern-relevance, and the amygdala: The algorithmic value of appraisal processes in emotion.
Hidden Reward: Affect and Its Prediction Errors as Windows Into Subjective Value.
Getting closer: compassion training increases feelings of closeness toward a disliked person.
A randomized controlled trial investigating the effect of liraglutide on self-reported liking and neural responses to food stimuli in participants with obesity.
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Contact
Faculté de psychologie et sciences de l’éducation
Université de Genève
Email: David.Sander@unige.ch