Research Groups

E3 Lab, UNIGE

 

PRESENTATION

Research in the Laboratory for the study of Emotion Elicitation and Expression (E3 Lab) investigates the cognitive and brain mechanisms involved in the appraisal of relevant stimuli, and how these processes elicit emotions, and modulate attention, learning, memory, and decision-making.

The Laboratory for the study of Emotion Elicitation and Expression conduct their experiments on the sites of the Brain and Behaviour Laboratory, of Uni Mail, and of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences at the Campus Biotech.

DIRECTOR 

sander_david.jpgProf. David Sander mainly investigates the brain and cognitive mechanisms involved in emotion. He studied mathematics and psychology at the University René Descartes (Paris, France), and received a PhD in Cognitive Sciences from the University Louis Lumière (Lyon, France).

In 2002, he joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). He is now full professor in this Department where he directs the Laboratory for the study of Emotion Elicitation and Expression.

In 2012, he has been appointed Director of the Centre Interfacultaire en Sciences Affectives, and of the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) in Affective Sciences, which is located at the Campus Biotech.

He is mainly interested in the brain and cognitive mechanisms involved in emotion elicitation, and how these mechanisms modulate attention, memory, and decision-making.

He has published more than 100 articles and edited 6 books on these topics. For his work, he was awarded the 2013 National Latsis Prize.

 

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