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 Reactivity and Vulnerability to Social Feedback Following Acute Stress in Early Adolescence.
Effects of Dalcroze Eurhythmics Exercise Versus Multicomponent Exercise on Physical and Cognitive Function, and Falls in Older Adults: The EPHYCOS Randomized Controlled Trial.
Influence of transient emotional episodes on affective and cognitive theory of mind.
I don't feel sick: Cognitive and affective processing of self-health associations using the Implicit Association Test.
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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
Soraya Brosset
+41 22 37 90 383
soraya.brosset@unige.ch
Pauline Cantou
+41 22 37 91 243
pauline.cantou@unige.ch
Chloé Deschanet
+41 22 37 90 994
chloe.deschanet@unige.ch
Riccardo Galli
+41 22 37 90 992
riccardo.galli@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
Yvain Tisserand
+41 22 37 97 331
yvain.tisserand@unige.ch
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Faculté de médecine
Université de Genève
Email: Patrik.Vuilleumier@unige.ch