Patrik Vuilleumier

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.

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Prof. Patrik Vuilleumier

Group leader

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Bruno Bonet

Lab technician

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Soraya Brosset

Graduate student

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Pauline Cantou

Postdoc

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Chloé Deschanet

Doctorante

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Riccardo Galli

Graduate student

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Giovanni Leone

Postdoc

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Christophe Mermoud

Lab technician

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Maeva Moyne

Postdoc

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Martina Nonni

Graduate student

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Roberta Ronchi

Postdoc

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Mathilde Salagnon

Postdoc

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Chunyan Shi

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Jie Song

Graduate student

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Mi Xue Tan

Graduate student

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Yvain Tisserand

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Faculté de médecine
Université de Genève
Email: Patrik.Vuilleumier@unige.ch