Didier Grandjean
Function: Professeur ordinaire
Group name: Neuroscience of Emotion and Affective Dynamics
Group type: Main
Affiliations: Faculty of Psychology and Science of Education, Psychology Section
Domains: Affective and Social Neurosciences
Keywords: auditory processing, brain damages, Emotion
Research activities
Our research topics include the psychological and neuronal processes involved in emotion and the affective dynamics related to different kinds of auditory, olfactory, and visual stimuli. How the human mind is able to build up a verbally accessible representation of emotion from an auditory stimulus is one of the major axes in our research. The mechanisms of the relationships between brain areas subserving various psychological sub-processes related to emotion are studied using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalography (EEG), and human intracranial recordings. Studies about the effects of brain damages are also conducted. Different clinical syndromes, such as depression, Parkinson disease and anxiety disorders, are investigated in order to better understand how emotion interacts with cognitive functions such as attention and inhibition. The specificity of multimodal integration in affective phenomena and the processes related to the elicitation of emotion through music are also conducted in the NEAD lab.
Latest publications
Maternal and paternal infant directed speech is modulated by the child's age in in two and three person interactions.
Maternal singing and speech have beneficial effects on preterm infant's general movements at term equivalent age and at 3 months: an RCT.
Differential Effects of Disease Duration and Dopaminergic Replacement Therapy on Vocal Emotion Recognition in Asymmetric Parkinson's Disease.
Newborn's neural representation of instrumental and vocal music as revealed by fMRI: A dynamic effective brain connectivity study.
Contact
Faculté de psychologie et sciences de l’éducation
Université de Genève
Email: Didier.Grandjean@unige.ch