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
Brain neuromarkers predict self- and other-related mentalizing across adult, clinical, and developmental samples.
Persistent anhedonic dysregulation of positive social emotion processing in major depression.
Neural Substrates of Attentional Control During Emotional Processing: Evidence From rTMS-fMRI Targeting the Frontal Eye Field.
Reply: Blinding integrity in cross-frequency transcranial alternating current stimulation for hemianopia.
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
Tasnime Bouzelat
tasnime.bouzelat@unige.ch
Soraya Brosset
+41 22 37 90 383
soraya.brosset@unige.ch
Romain Ceresetti
Romain.Ceresetti@unige.ch
Chloé Deschanet
+41 22 37 90 994
chloe.deschanet@unige.ch
Riccardo Galli
+41 22 37 90 992
riccardo.galli@unige.ch
Rebecca Guarino
rebecca.guarino@unige.ch
Johanna Rebecca Falk
johanna.falk@unige.ch
Theo Favre
theo.favre.2@etu.unige.ch
Shixuan Feng
shixuan.feng@unige.ch
Sarah Habermacher
sarah.habermacher@unige.ch
Isdihar Hamed
isdihar.hamed@unige.ch
Giovanni Leone
+41 22 37 90 272
giovanni.leone@unige.ch
Olivia Marcillac Lopez
olivia.marcillac@etu.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
Alice Pierini
alice.pierini@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
Lina Teichmann
lina.teichmann@unige.ch
Yvain Tisserand
+41 22 37 97 331
yvain.tisserand@unige.ch
Konstantin Toussas
konstantin.toussas@unige.ch
Contact
Faculté de médecine
Université de Genève
Email: Patrik.Vuilleumier@unige.ch