About the CEREBEMO project

The functions of the cerebellum are traditionally assumed to be limited to the regulation of motor coordination, balance, and motor speech. In recent decades, however, the results of neuroanatomical, neuroimaging and clinical studies have started to challenge this view, suggesting that the cerebellum is also involved in cognition and emotion. The CEREBEMO project aims at better understanding the cerebellum’s functional specialization and integration in human affective processes but also to investigate, more generally, the basal ganglia-cerebellar network during sensorimotor, cognitive and emotional processes underpinning the habit formation. For this project, we collaborate with the neurology Unit at the University Hospitals of Geneva as well as the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University Hospital of Lausanne.

Collaborators

Frédéric Assal
Cognitive Neurology Unit, Department of Neurology, University Hospitals of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland
Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland

Damien Benis
Neuroscience of Emotion and Affective Dynamics Laboratory (NEAD), Department of Psychology and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland

Leonardo Ceravolo
Neuroscience of Emotion and Affective Dynamics Laboratory (NEAD), Department of Psychology and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland

Corrado Corradi-Dell’Acqua
Theory of Pain Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (FPSE), University of Geneva, Switzerland
Geneva Neuroscience Centre, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Didier Grandjean
Neuroscience of Emotion and Affective Dynamics Laboratory (NEAD), Department of Psychology and Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, 1205 Geneva, Switzerland

Jordan Pierce
Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology Laboratory, Faculty of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Arnaud Saj
Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, 2900 Montreal, QC, Canada

Funding

Swiss National Science Foundation, UNIGE
"Influence of top-down mechanisms on cerebellar activity during vocal emotion decoding"
Grant N°: 105314_215015 – 2023 - 2026

Swiss National Science Foundation, UNIGE
"Cerebellar contribution to human emotion: insights from stroke and neuroimaging"
Grant N°: 105314_182221 – 2019 - 2023