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Anosognosia: the neurology of beliefs and uncertaintiesPatrik Vuilleumier
Laboratory for Behavioural Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland
Cortex 40:9-17. 2004..New experimental approaches and new therapeutic tools are needed to better understand the neurocognitive mechanisms responsible for our awareness of normal functioning and failures...
The number space and neglectPatrik Vuilleumier
Laboratory of Behavioural Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, University Hospital Geneva
Cortex 40:399-410. 2004..Our findings demonstrate that unilateral spatial neglect may produce specific representational deficits in number processing that implicate different spatial representations according to the task demands...
Impaired perceptual memory of locations across gaze-shifts in patients with unilateral spatial neglectPatrik Vuilleumier
University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland
J Cogn Neurosci 19:1388-406. 2007....
Modulation of visual processing by attention and emotion: windows on causal interactions between human brain regionsPatrik Vuilleumier
Laboratory of Behavioural Neurology and Imaging of Cognition LabNIC, Department of Neurosciences, University Medical Centre, 1 rue Michel Servet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 362:837-55. 2007....
Distributed and interactive brain mechanisms during emotion face perception: evidence from functional neuroimagingPatrik Vuilleumier
Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Clinic of Neurology, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Neuropsychologia 45:174-94. 2007..The functional implications of these interactions remain to be fully explored, but might play an important role in the normal development of face processing skills and in some neuropsychiatric disorders...
Neural systems for orienting attention to the location of threat signals: an event-related fMRI studyGilles Pourtois
Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Clinic of Neurology, University Hospital and Department of Neurosciences, University Medical Center, Switzerland
Neuroimage 31:920-33. 2006..Neural mechanisms responsible for orienting attention towards emotional vs. non-emotional stimuli are thus partly shared in parietal and visual areas, but also partly distinct...
How brains beware: neural mechanisms of emotional attentionPatrik Vuilleumier
Laboratory for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neurosciences and Clinic of Neurology, University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland
Trends Cogn Sci 9:585-94. 2005..This work should help to elucidate the neural processes and temporal dynamics governing the integration of cognitive and affective influences in attention and behaviour...
Selective attention modulates neural substrates of repetition priming and "implicit" visual memory: suppressions and enhancements revealed by FMRIPatrik Vuilleumier
Lab for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neurosciences and Physiology, University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland
J Cogn Neurosci 17:1245-60. 2005..These results reveal quantitative and qualitative differences between neural substrates of long-term repetition effects for attended versus unattended objects...
Hysterical conversion and brain functionPatrik Vuilleumier
Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Clinic of Neurology, University University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Prog Brain Res 150:309-29. 2005..This should not only lead to improve clinical management of these patients, but also provide new insights on the brain mechanisms of self-awareness...
[Unilateral spatial neglect]Patrik Vuilleumier
Laboratoire de Neurologie du Comportement et Imagerie Cognitive, Département de Neurosciences Cliniques et de Physiologie, Centre Medical Universitaire, Geneve
Rev Med Suisse Romande 123:33-9. 2003..Unilateral spatial neglect may lead to poor functional recovery and remains difficult to treat using current rehabilitation procedures...
Abnormal attentional modulation of retinotopic cortex in parietal patients with spatial neglectPatrik Vuilleumier
Laboratory for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neurosciences and Clinical Neurology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Curr Biol 18:1525-9. 2008..These results reveal attention-dependent abnormalities in visual cortex after lesions in distant (parietal) regions. This may explain otherwise puzzling aspects of neglect [5, 6], as confirmed here by additional behavioral testing...
Emotion and attention interactions in social cognition: brain regions involved in processing anger prosodyDavid Sander
Geneva Emotion Research Group, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Neuroimage 28:848-58. 2005....
Distant influences of amygdala lesion on visual cortical activation during emotional face processingPatrik Vuilleumier
Laboratory for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neurology and Neurosciences, Centre Medical Universitaire, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
Nat Neurosci 7:1271-8. 2004..Our data show that combining the fMRI and lesion approaches can help reveal the source of functional modulatory influences between distant but interconnected brain regions...
The brain under self-control: modulation of inhibitory and monitoring cortical networks during hypnotic paralysisYann Cojan
Department of Neuroscience, University Medical School, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Neuron 62:862-75. 2009..These results suggest that hypnosis may enhance self-monitoring processes to allow internal representations generated by the suggestion to guide behavior but does not act through direct motor inhibition...
Two electrophysiological stages of spatial orienting towards fearful faces: early temporo-parietal activation preceding gain control in extrastriate visual cortexGilles Pourtois
Department of Neuroscience, Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Clinic of Neurology, University Medical Centre CMU, Bat A, Physiology, Geneva, Switzerland
Neuroimage 26:149-63. 2005....
Emotional attention in acquired prosopagnosiaMarius V Peelen
Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 4:268-77. 2009..We conclude that systems involved in the emotional guidance of attention by facial expression can function normally in acquired prosopagnosia, and can thus be dissociated from systems involved in face identification...
Attentional load and sensory competition in human vision: modulation of fMRI responses by load at fixation during task-irrelevant stimulation in the peripheral visual fieldSophie Schwartz
Laboratory for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neurosciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Cereb Cortex 15:770-86. 2005..These distinct mechanisms in selective visual processing may be integrated within posterior parietal areas, rather than earlier occipital cortex...
Attentional load modifies early activity in human primary visual cortexKarsten S Rauss
Department of Neurosciences, Laboratory for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, University of Geneva, Rue Michel Servet 1, Geneva, Switzerland
Hum Brain Mapp 30:1723-33. 2009....
Portraits or people? Distinct representations of face identity in the human visual cortexGilles Pourtois
Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Clinic of Neurology and Department of Neurosciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
J Cogn Neurosci 17:1043-57. 2005..This pattern provides new insights into the nature of face representation in the human visual system...
Enhanced extrastriate visual response to bandpass spatial frequency filtered fearful faces: time course and topographic evoked-potentials mappingGilles Pourtois
Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Clinic of Neurology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Hum Brain Mapp 26:65-79. 2005....
Memory for friends or foes: the social context of past encounters with faces modulates their subsequent neural traces in the brainPascal Vrticka
University of Geneva, and University Medical Center of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Soc Neurosci 4:384-401. 2009....
The voices of wrath: brain responses to angry prosody in meaningless speechDidier Grandjean
Geneva Emotion Research Group, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Bd du Pont d Arve 40, CH 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
Nat Neurosci 8:145-6. 2005..Attention and emotion seem to have separate effects on stimulus processing, reflecting a fundamental principle of human brain organization shared by voice and face perception...
Effects of emotional and non-emotional cues on visual search in neglect patients: evidence for distinct sources of attentional guidanceNadia Lucas
Laboratory for Behavioural Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neurosciences and Clinic of Neurology, University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland
Neuropsychologia 46:1401-14. 2008....
Individual attachment style modulates human amygdala and striatum activation during social appraisalPascal Vrticka
Swiss National Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
PLoS ONE 3:e2868. 2008..By linking fundamental psychosocial dimensions of adult attachment with brain function, our results do not only corroborate their biological bases but also help understand their impact on behavior...
Effects of attentional load on early visual processing depend on stimulus timingKarsten Rauss
Department of Neuroscience, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Hum Brain Mapp 33:63-74. 2012..These findings suggest that stimulus timing can profoundly alter the effects of attentional load on the earliest stages of processing in human visual cortex...
Top-down activation of fusiform cortex without seeing faces in prosopagnosiaRuthger Righart
Laboratory for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neurosciences and Clinic of Neurology, University of Geneva, CH 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Cereb Cortex 20:1878-90. 2010..S. These results provide a novel account for residual activation of the FFA and underscore the importance of controlling task demands during functional magnetic resonance imaging...
Effects of emotional prosody on auditory extinction for voices in patients with spatial neglectDidier Grandjean
Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Neuropsychologia 46:487-96. 2008..Taken together, our results have provided new evidence that emotional attention mechanisms may be triggered in the auditory modality by negative and positive vocal stimuli...
Impaired activation of face processing networks revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging in 22q11.2 deletion syndromeFrederic Andersson
Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Clinic of Neurology, University Hospital and Department of Neurosciences, University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland
Biol Psychiatry 63:49-57. 2008..However, the neuro-functional substrates underlying these deficits have not been explored. Our aim was to investigate facial and emotional processing in 22q11DS...
Simultaneous recording of EEG and facial muscle reactions during spontaneous emotional mimicryAmal Achaibou
Laboratory for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience and Clinic of Neurology, University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland
Neuropsychologia 46:1104-13. 2008..These findings are discussed against the classical dual-route model of face recognition...
View-independent coding of face identity in frontal and temporal cortices is modulated by familiarity: an event-related fMRI studyGilles Pourtois
Department of Neurosciences, Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Clinic of Neurology, University Hospital, University Medical Center, Switzerland
Neuroimage 24:1214-24. 2005....
Rhythm evokes action: early processing of metric deviances in expressive music by experts and laymen revealed by ERP source imagingClara E James
Geneva Neuroscience Center, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Hum Brain Mapp 33:2751-67. 2012..Such motor representations could play a role in temporal sensory prediction evolved from musical training and suggests that rhythm evokes action more strongly in highly trained instrumentalists...
White-matter connectivity between face-responsive regions in the human brainMarkus Gschwind
Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, CH 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Cereb Cortex 22:1564-76. 2012..These results unveil the structural neural architecture of the human face recognition system and provide new insights on how distributed face-responsive areas may work together...
Neuroanatomy of hemispatial neglect and its functional components: a study using voxel-based lesion-symptom mappingVincent Verdon
Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Brain 133:880-94. 2010....
Electrophysiological correlates of rapid spatial orienting towards fearful facesGilles Pourtois
Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Cereb Cortex 14:619-33. 2004..These results provide evidence for neural mechanisms allowing rapid, exogenous spatial orienting of attention towards fear stimuli...
Self-relevance processing in the human amygdala: gaze direction, facial expression, and emotion intensityKarim N'Diaye
Laboratory for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Basic Neuroscience, University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland
Emotion 9:798-806. 2009..These results support an involvement of human amygdala in the appraisal of self-relevance and reveal a crucial role of expression intensity in emotion and gaze interactions...
Tactile awareness and limb position in neglect: functional magnetic resonance imagingNathalie Valenza
Department of Neurology and Neurosciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Ann Neurol 55:139-43. 2004..Activity in bilateral middle frontal gyri also was modulated by limb position and may contribute to integrate sensory inputs into a supramodal, egocentric representation of space...
Emotional modulation of body-selective visual areasMarius V Peelen
Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 2:274-83. 2007....
Unavoidable errors: a spatio-temporal analysis of time-course and neural sources of evoked potentials associated with error processing in a speeded taskRoland Vocat
Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience and Clinic of Neurology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Neuropsychologia 46:2545-55. 2008..While ERN/Ne processes in anterior cingulate might primarily mediate error detection, Pe processes in posterior cingulate might be more directly related to behavioral adjustment based on the outcome of current actions...
Dissociable roles of the human somatosensory and superior temporal cortices for processing social face signalsGilles Pourtois
Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Clinic of Neurology and Department of Neurosciences, University Medical Center, 1 rue Michel Servet, CH 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Eur J Neurosci 20:3507-15. 2004..The present study supports a critical role of the somatosensory and superior lateral temporal regions in the perception of fear expression and gaze shift in seen faces, respectively...
Impact of transient emotions on functional connectivity during subsequent resting state: a wavelet correlation approachHamdi Eryilmaz
Department of Neuroscience, CMU, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Neuroimage 54:2481-91. 2011..These findings reveal specific neural circuits recruited during the recovery from emotional arousal and highlight the complex functional dynamics of default mode networks in emotionally salient contexts...
Emotional processing and its impact on unilateral neglect and extinctionJudith Domínguez-Borràs
Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience, University Medical Center, 1 rue Michel Servet, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Neuropsychologia 50:1054-71. 2012....
Felt and seen pain evoke the same local patterns of cortical activity in insular and cingulate cortexCorrado Corradi-Dell'Acqua
Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, CH 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
J Neurosci 31:17996-8006. 2011....
Face perception in the mind's eyeRuthger Righart
Laboratory for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Brain Topogr 24:9-18. 2011..These effects may reflect top-down modulation by memory on visual recognition processes by filling-in the missing facial information...
Distinct spatial frequency sensitivities for processing faces and emotional expressionsPatrik Vuilleumier
Laboratory for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Physiology, University of Geneva Medical Center, 1 Michel-Servet, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Nat Neurosci 6:624-31. 2003..An activation of pulvinar and superior colliculus by fearful expressions occurred specifically with low-frequency faces, suggesting that these subcortical pathways may provide coarse fear-related inputs to the amygdala...
Effects of perceptual learning on primary visual cortex activity in humansGilles Pourtois
Laboratory for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neurosciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Vision Res 48:55-62. 2008..Our results demonstrate that successful acquisition of a perceptual skill can produce long-lasting changes for initial sensory inputs in the adult human visual system...
Effects of emotion regulation strategy on brain responses to the valence and social content of visual scenesPascal Vrticka
Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Neuropsychologia 49:1067-82. 2011....
The space of senses: impaired crossmodal interactions in a patient with Balint syndrome after bilateral parietal damageNathalie Valenza
Laboratory of Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience and Clinic of Neurology, University of Geneva, 24 rue Micheli-du-Crest 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
Neuropsychologia 42:1737-48. 2004....
Time course of brain activity during change blindness and change awareness: performance is predicted by neural events before change onsetGilles Pourtois
Neurology and Imaging of Cognition Laboratory, Department of Neuroscience and Neurology Clinic, University Medical Centre CMU, Geneva, Switzerland
J Cogn Neurosci 18:2108-29. 2006..These results indicate that awareness of visual changes may depend on the attentional state subserved by coordinated neural activity in a distributed network, before the onset of the change itself...
Mapping aesthetic musical emotions in the brainWiebke Trost
Laboratory of Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience, Medical School, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Cereb Cortex 22:2769-83. 2012..These data reveal a differentiated recruitment across emotions of networks involved in reward, memory, self-reflective, and sensorimotor processes, which may account for the unique richness of musical emotions...
Differential development of selectivity for faces and bodies in the fusiform gyrusMarius V Peelen
Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Dev Sci 12:F16-25. 2009..Moreover, differences in the development of the FFA and FBA indicate that overlapping functional brain areas, supported by the same anatomical structure, can develop along different trajectories...
Hemispheric specialization of human inferior temporal cortex during coarse-to-fine and fine-to-coarse analysis of natural visual scenesCarole Peyrin
Laboratory for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Clinic of Neurology and Department of Neurosciences, University Medical Center, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Neuroimage 28:464-73. 2005....
Parametric modulation of error-related ERP components by the magnitude of visuo-motor mismatchRoland Vocat
Laboratory for Behavioural Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience and Clinic of Neurology, University Medical School of Geneva, Switzerland
Neuropsychologia 49:360-7. 2011....
Bayesian models of mentalizingRolando Grave de Peralta Menendez
Electrical Neuroimaging Group, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
Brain Topogr 20:278-83. 2008..These results encourage the future use of Bayesian formalism to build more detailed models able to describe the single trial dynamic...
Beyond conventional event-related brain potential (ERP): exploring the time-course of visual emotion processing using topographic and principal component analysesGilles Pourtois
Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience and Clinic of Neurology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Brain Topogr 20:265-77. 2008..These findings highlight the added value of such alternative analyses when exploring the electrophysiological manifestations of complex and distributed mental functions, as for instance during emotion processing...
The neural substrates of social emotion perception and regulation are modulated by adult attachment stylePascal Vrticka
Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Soc Neurosci 7:473-93. 2012..Taken together, these findings reveal for the first time the neural underpinnings of attachment-related differences in social emotion regulation...
Effects of social context and predictive relevance on action outcome monitoringLeonie Koban
Laboratory for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neurosciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 12:460-78. 2012....
When your errors make me lose or win: event-related potentials to observed errors of cooperators and competitorsLeonie Koban
University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Soc Neurosci 5:360-74. 2010..We conclude that error monitoring for others' actions depends on their congruence with personal goals, and recruits brain systems involved in self-referential processing specifically during cooperation...
Anosognosia for hemiplegia: a clinical-anatomical prospective studyRoland Vocat
Laboratory for Behavioural Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience and Clinic of Neurology, University of Geneva School of Medicine, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Brain 133:3578-97. 2010....
Persistent affective biases in human amygdala response following implicit priming with negative emotion conceptsSwann Pichon
Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Dpt of Neuroscience, Medical School, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Neuroimage 62:1610-21. 2012..This demonstrates that emotional processing can be modulated by implicit influence of environmental information processed at an earlier time, independently of volitional control...
Reactivation of visual cortex during memory retrieval: content specificity and emotional modulationChristoph Hofstetter
Laboratory for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neurosciences and Neurology, University Hospital and Medical School, University of Geneva, Switzerland Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Neuroimage 60:1734-45. 2012....
Processing social aspects of human gaze: a combined fMRI-DTI studyThomas Ethofer
Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience and Clinic of Neurology, Medical School, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Neuroimage 55:411-9. 2011....
Decoding of emotional information in voice-sensitive corticesThomas Ethofer
Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience and Clinic of Neurology, Medical School, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Curr Biol 19:1028-33. 2009..These results demonstrate for the first time that emotional information is represented by distinct spatial patterns that can be decoded from brain activity in modality-specific cortical areas...
Direct intracranial recording of body-selective responses in human extrastriate visual cortexGilles Pourtois
Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Neuropsychologia 45:2621-5. 2007..These findings provide the first direct electrophysiological evidence for an early visual processing stage in human lateral occipitotemporal cortex that is specialized for processing human body shapes...
Illusory persistence of touch after right parietal damage: neural correlates of tactile awarenessSophie Schwartz
Laboratory for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neuroscience, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Brain 128:277-90. 2005..These findings also provide direct evidence for a critical role of SI in mediating conscious somatosensory experience on contralateral parts of the body...
Dynamics of emotional effects on spatial attention in the human visual cortexGilles Pourtois
Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Clinic of Neurology, University Hospital and Department of Neurosciences, University Medical Center, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Prog Brain Res 156:67-91. 2006..These brain-imaging results reveal how emotional signals related to threat can play an important role in modulating spatial attention to afford flexible perception and action...
Guilt-specific processing in the prefrontal cortexUllrich Wagner
Department of Neuroscience, University Medical School, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Cereb Cortex 21:2461-70. 2011..These results provide new insights on the unique nature of guilt as a "self-conscious" moral emotion and the neural bases of antisocial disorders characterized by impaired guilt processing...
Early neuronal responses in right limbic structures mediate harmony incongruity processing in musical expertsClara E James
Geneva Neuroscience Center, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Neuroimage 42:1597-608. 2008....
Moving with or without will: functional neural correlates of alien hand syndromeFrederic Assal
Neurology Clinic, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
Ann Neurol 62:301-6. 2007....
Motor inhibition in hysterical conversion paralysisYann Cojan
Department of Neuroscience, University Medical School, University of Geneva, 1 rue Michel Servet, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Neuroimage 47:1026-37. 2009..These results suggest that conversion symptoms do not act through cognitive inhibitory circuits, but involve selective activations in midline brain regions associated with self-related representations and emotion regulation...
Functional magnetic resonance imaging and diffusion tensor imaging in a case of central poststroke painMohamed L Seghier
Department of Radiology, University of Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland
J Pain 6:208-12. 2005..Our investigations show, for CPSP pathogenesis, the role of damage of lateral nociceptive thalamoparietal fibers together with the release of activity of anterior cingulate and posterior parietal regions...
[Neuroimaging and neuroscience of emotional processes]Swann Pichon
Universite de Geneve, Suisse
Med Sci (Paris) 27:763-70. 2011....
Structural changes to the fusiform gyrus: a cerebral marker for social impairments in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome?Bronwyn Glaser
Service Médico Pédagogique, Department of Child Psychiatry, University of Geneva Medical School and University Hospitals, 16 18 bd St Georges, 1211 Geneva 8, Switzerland
Schizophr Res 96:82-6. 2007..The results demonstrate structural changes to the FG in 22q11DS, providing evidence for neural vulnerability in regions related to social cognition...
Integration of gaze direction and facial expression in patients with unilateral amygdala damageChiara Cristinzio
Hopitaux Universitaires de Geneve, 24, Rue Micheli du Crest, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland
Brain 133:248-61. 2010..These findings do not only provide new insights on human amygdala function, but may also help design novel neuropsychological tests sensitive to amygdala dysfunction in various patient populations...
Eye gaze during face processing in children and adolescents with 22q11.2 deletion syndromeBronwyn Glaser
University of Geneva School of Medicine, Switzerland
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 49:665-74. 2010..The current study investigated eye gaze as a potential marker during a face-processing task in children and young adolescents with 22q11DS...
Differential influences of emotion, task, and novelty on brain regions underlying the processing of speech melodyThomas Ethofer
University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
J Cogn Neurosci 21:1255-68. 2009..Taken together, our study reveals that different aspects of voice stimuli and perceptual demands modulate distinct areas involved in the processing of emotional prosody...
Hyperfamiliarity for unknown faces after left lateral temporo-occipital venous infarction: a double dissociation with prosopagnosiaPatrik Vuilleumier
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
Brain 126:889-907. 2003..Hence, abnormal bias in attributing some personal meaning to unknown faces could be evoked by spurious signals of familiarity based on irrelevant affective associations in the right hemisphere...
Neural bases of hypoactive sexual desire disorder in women: an event-related FMRI studyFrancesco Bianchi-Demicheli
Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Gynecology and Sexology Unit, University Hospital of Geneva, Maurice Chalumeau Foundation, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
J Sex Med 8:2546-59. 2011..e., female hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), little remains known about the specific neural bases of this disorder...
Phenomenology of racing and crowded thoughts in mood disorders: a theoretical reappraisalCamille Piguet
Laboratory for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neurosciences and Clinic of Neurology, University Medical Center, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
J Affect Disord 121:189-98. 2010..This paper aims to summarize our current knowledge about its phenomenology and frequency in the spectrum of mood disorders, and to offer a new theoretical framework...
Neglect: remembering the space left behindArnaud Saj
Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neurology, University Hospital and Department of Neurosciences, University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland
Curr Biol 17:R1060-2. 2007..A recent study on how back space is represented in patients suffering from spatial neglect underscores the distinction between motor and non-motor space...
Distinct and convergent visual processing of high and low spatial frequency information in facesPia Rotshtein
Behavioural Brain Science Centre, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
Cereb Cortex 17:2713-24. 2007....
Neural basis for priming of pop-out during visual search revealed with fMRIArni Kristjansson
Department of Psychology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
Cereb Cortex 17:1612-24. 2007....
Cognitive science: staring fear in the facePatrik Vuilleumier
Nature 433:22-3. 2005
Testing memory for unseen visual stimuli in patients with extinction and spatial neglectPatrik Vuilleumier
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK
J Cogn Neurosci 14:875-86. 2002..These results suggest implicit but not explicit memory for extinguished visual stimuli in parietal patients...
Cholinergic enhancement modulates neural correlates of selective attention and emotional processingPaul Bentley
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, 12 Queen Square, London WCIN 3BG, UK
Neuroimage 20:58-70. 2003..Furthermore, cholinergic inputs to the frontoparietal cortex may influence the allocation of attention to emotional information...
The processing of emotional facial expression is gated by spatial attention: evidence from event-related brain potentialsAmanda Holmes
School of Psychology, Birkbeck University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK
Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 16:174-84. 2003..The face-sensitive N170 component was unaffected by emotional facial expression, but N170 amplitudes were enhanced when faces were attended, suggesting that spatial attention can modulate the structural encoding of faces...
Visual consciousness in health and diseaseAndrew R Whatham
Neuro-Ophthalmology Unit, Ophthalmology Clinic, Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Dermatology, Geneva University Hospitals, rue Micheli-du-Crest, 1211 Geneva, 14 Switzerland
Neurol Clin 21:647-86, vi. 2003..It also presents recent research about how conscious awareness of vision might be represented at a neural level in the central nervous system...
Effects of attention and emotion on repetition priming and their modulation by cholinergic enhancementPaul Bentley
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom
J Neurophysiol 90:1171-81. 2003..Thus we show that cholinergic enhancement both augments a neural signature of priming and modulates the effects of attention and emotion on behavioral and neural consequences of repetition...
Are impairments of action monitoring and executive control true dissociative dysfunctions in patients with schizophrenia?And U Turken
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA 94305 5550, USA
Am J Psychiatry 160:1881-3. 2003..Impaired self-monitoring is considered a critical deficit of schizophrenia. The authors asked whether this is a specific and isolable impairment or is part of a global disturbance of cognitive and attentional functions...
Time course and specificity of event-related potentials to emotional expressionsVictoria Ashley
VA Northern California Health Care System, Research Service 151, 150 Muir Road, Martinez, CA 94553, USA
Neuroreport 15:211-6. 2004..These results provide evidence for emotion-specific ERPs associated with fear and disgust, distinct from other non-specific configurational and attentional effects...
Effects of low-spatial frequency components of fearful faces on fusiform cortex activityJoel S Winston
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London, 12 Queen Square, WC1N 3BG, London, United Kingdom
Curr Biol 13:1824-9. 2003....
Priming of color and position during visual search in unilateral spatial neglectArni Kristjansson
University College London, UK
J Cogn Neurosci 17:859-73. 2005..These findings demonstrate relatively intact priming of visual search by color and location in patients with right parietal damage, and also reveal that location priming may differ from color priming in requiring awareness...
