Patrik Vuilleumier
Group name: Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition
Group type: Main
Affiliations: Faculty of Medicine, Department of Basic Neurosciences
Domains: Perception, Attention and Cognition, Affective and Social Neurosciences
Keywords: Emotion, face recognition, facial expression, neural circuits, perception
Research activities
Our group investigates the cerebral mechanisms of cognition, including perception, emotion, and consciousness. We use neuroimaging techniques such as functional resonance magnetic imaging (fMRI) and event-related potentials (ERPs). The major questions of our research concern how the human visual system can recognize objects and faces, how we identify sounds and voices, and how we perceive and respond to emotions and social signals, such as facial expressions or eye gaze. We also study the neural circuits by which emotions can influence perception and behavior, for example in response to fear, anger, or reward. We are particularly interested by the role of the amygdala in emotion and social processes. Our work also investigates the impact of brain lesions on cognitive functions (after stroke or other brain diseases), such as deficits in attention and space representations in hemineglect syndrome, with the aim to understand how different brain areas interact to produce normal conscious awareness of sensory space, and to develop new therapeutic approaches to improve impaired functions.
Latest publications
Place-related representations in setting the stage for empathy.
Fearful Events Induce Sustained Changes in Spontaneous Aperiodic EEG.
Unveiling covert disownership after stroke: a neuropsychological and neural approach.
Emo-FilM: A multimodal dataset for affective neuroscience using naturalistic stimuli.
Hide the members of the Lab
Prof. Patrik Vuilleumier
+41 22 37 95 381
patrik.vuilleumier@unige.ch
Bruno Bonet
+41 22 37 94 160
bruno.bonet@unige.ch
Soraya Brosset
+41 22 37 90 383
soraya.brosset@unige.ch
Pauline Cantou
+41 22 37 91 243
pauline.cantou@unige.ch
Romain Ceresetti
Romain.Ceresetti@unige.ch
Damla Cifci
damla.cifci@unige.ch
Lucas Consonni
Lucas.Consonni@etu.unige.ch
Chloé Deschanet
+41 22 37 90 994
chloe.deschanet@unige.ch
Riccardo Galli
+41 22 37 90 992
riccardo.galli@unige.ch
Isdihar Hamed
isdihar.hamed@unige.ch
Loïc Kreienbuhl
loic.kreienbuhl@unige.ch
Giovanni Leone
+41 22 37 90 272
giovanni.leone@unige.ch
Christophe Mermoud
+41 22 37 94 168
christophe.mermoud@unige.ch
Maeva Moyne
+41 22 37 90 868
maeva.moyne@unige.ch
Martina Nonni
+41 22 37 90 349
martina.nonni@unige.ch
Roberta Ronchi
+41 22 37 95 311
roberta.ronchi@unige.ch
Mathilde Salagnon
+41 22 37 91 045
mathilde.salagnon@unige.ch
Chunyan Shi
+41 22 37 90 998
chunyan.shi@unige.ch
Jie Song
+41 22 37 90 346
jie.song@unige.ch
Mi Xue Tan
+41 22 37 90 345
mixue.tan@unige.ch
Lina Teichmann
lina.teichmann@unige.ch
Yvain Tisserand
+41 22 37 97 331
yvain.tisserand@unige.ch
Contact
Faculté de médecine
Université de Genève
Email: Patrik.Vuilleumier@unige.ch