Patrik Vuilleumier
Group name: Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition
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
Exposure to negative socio-emotional events induces sustained alteration of resting-state brain networks in older adults.
Functional brain changes in sarcopenia: evidence for differential central neural mechanisms in dynapenic older women.
Brain networks subserving functional core processes of emotions identified with componential modeling.
Mixed emotions to social situations: An fMRI investigation.
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Prof. Patrik Vuilleumier
+41 22 37 95 381
patrik.vuilleumier@unige.ch
Bruno Bonet
+41 22 37 94 160
bruno.bonet@unige.ch
Lucie Brechet
+41 22 37 90 852
lucie.brechet@unige.ch
Soraya Brosset
+41 22 37 90 383
soraya.brosset@unige.ch
Heather Carlson
+41 22 37 90 349
heather.carlson@unige.ch
Eugénie Cataldo
+41 22 37 90 384
eugenie.cataldo@unige.ch
Yacila Deza
+41 22 37 90 228
yacila.dezaaraujo@unige.ch
Riccardo Galli
+41 22 37 90 992
riccardo.galli@unige.ch
Julian Gaviria
+41 22 37 90 380
julian.gaviria@unige.ch
Frederic Grouiller
+41 22 37 95 360
frederic.grouiller@unige.ch
Carole Guedj
+41 22 37 90 993
carole.guedj@unige.ch
Raphael Guex
+41 22 37 90 347
raphael.guex@unige.ch
Mael Lebreton
+41 22 37 90 912
mael.lebreton@unige.ch
Christophe Mermoud
+41 22 37 94 168
christophe.mermoud@unige.ch
Martina Nonni
+41 22 37 90 349
martina.nonni@unige.ch
Lucas Peek
+41 22 37 99 311
lucas.peek@unige.ch
Maria Ploumitsakou
+41 22 37 90 381
maria.ploumitsakou@unige.ch
Emilie Qiao
+41 22 37 90 805
emilie.qiao@unige.ch
Roberta Ronchi
+41 22 37 95 311
roberta.ronchi@unige.ch
Nahuel Salem-Garcia
+41 22 37 90 807
nahuel.salem-garcia@unige.ch
Ilaria Sani
+41 22 37 90 383
ilaria.sani@unige.ch
Stavros Skouras
+41 22 37 90 344
stavros.skouras@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
Eda Tipura
+41 22 37 95 311
eda.tipura@unige.ch
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Faculté de médecine
Université de Genève
Email: Patrik.Vuilleumier@unige.ch