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Didier Maurice Grandjean

Didier Maurice Grandjean

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Neuroscience

D-Index
67
Citations
17372
World Ranking
2872
National Ranking
76

Psychology

D-Index
67
Citations
17270
World Ranking
2590
National Ranking
28

Overview

Didier Maurice Grandjean is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to research in the intersecting fields of neuroscience, psychology, and medicine. The scientist's work spans a range of topics primarily focusing on cognitive neuroscience, infant development, and vocal communication.

Their research output includes significant publications across a variety of peer-reviewed journals and scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Cerebral Cortex Communications

Grandjean's main fields of study cover:

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Within these, the emphasis on subfields includes:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Pharmacy
  • Social Psychology
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The main research topics found in Grandjean's work are:

  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Language Development and Disorders

Several recent papers illustrate the scope and focus of Grandjean's research contributions:

  • "The rise of affectivism," 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Brain Networks of Emotional Prosody Processing," 2020, Emotion Review
  • "Systematic review shows the benefits of involving the fathers of preterm infants in early interventions in neonatal intensive care units," 2021, Acta Paediatrica
  • "Maternal speech decreases pain scores and increases oxytocin levels in preterm infants during painful procedures," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Basal ganglia and cerebellum contributions to vocal emotion processing as revealed by high-resolution fMRI," 2021, Scientific Reports

Grandjean frequently collaborates with other researchers in related fields. Notable co-authors include:

  • Manuela Filippa
  • Léonardo Ceravolo
  • Thibaud Gruber
  • Coralie Debracque
  • Damien Benis

This profile reflects Didier Maurice Grandjean's interdisciplinary approach to understanding neural, emotional, and developmental processes, particularly within human and animal vocal communication, infant care, and cognitive neuroscience contexts.

Best Publications

  • Emotions evoked by the sound of music: Characterization, classification, and measurement.

    Marcel Robert Zentner;Didier Maurice Grandjean;Klaus R. Scherer

  • Electrophysiological Correlates of Rapid Spatial Orienting Towards Fearful Faces

    Gilles Pourtois;Didier Maurice Grandjean;David Sander;Patrik Vuilleumier

  • 2005 Special Issue: A systems approach to appraisal mechanisms in emotion

    David Sander;Didier Grandjean;Klaus R. Scherer

  • The voices of wrath: brain responses to angry prosody in meaningless speech

    Didier Maurice Grandjean;David Sander;Gilles Pourtois;Sophie Schwartz

  • Emotion and attention interactions in social cognition: Brain regions involved in processing anger prosody

    David Sander;Didier Maurice Grandjean;Gilles Pourtois;Sophie Schwartz

  • Emotion recognition from expressions in face, voice, and body: the Multimodal Emotion Recognition Test (MERT).

    Tanja Bänziger;Didier Maurice Grandjean;Klaus R. Scherer

  • Emotion assessment: arousal evaluation using EEG's and peripheral physiological signals

    Guillaume Chanel;Julien Kronegg;Didier Grandjean;Thierry Pun

  • The impact of emotion on perception, attention, memory, and decision-making

    Tobias Brosch;Klaus R. Scherer;Didier Maurice Grandjean;David Sander

  • Conscious emotional experience emerges as a function of multilevel, appraisal-driven response synchronization.

    Didier Maurice Grandjean;David Sander;Klaus R. Scherer

  • Enhanced extrastriate visual response to bandpass spatial frequency filtered fearful faces: Time course and topographic evoked-potentials mapping

    Gilles Pourtois;E. S. Dan;Didier Maurice Grandjean;David Sander

  • Individual attachment style modulates human amygdala and striatum activation during social appraisal

    Pascal Vrticka;Frédéric Andersson;Didier Maurice Grandjean;David Sander

  • Spectral quality of light modulates emotional brain responses in humans

    Gilles Vandewalle;S. Schwartz;D. Grandjean;C. Wuillaume

  • Interaction effects of perceived gaze direction and dynamic facial expression: Evidence for appraisal theories of emotion

    David Sander;Didier Grandjean;Susanne Kaiser;Thomas Wehrle

  • Mapping the Semantic Space for the Subjective Experience of Emotional Responses to Odors

    Christelle Chrea;Didier Maurice Grandjean;Sylvain Delplanque;Isabelle Cayeux

  • Spatial frequencies or emotional effects?: A systematic measure of spatial frequencies for IAPS pictures by a discrete wavelet analysis

    Sylvain Delplanque;Karim Babacar Joseph Ndiaye;Klaus R. Scherer;Didier Maurice Grandjean

  • Unpacking the Cognitive Architecture of Emotion Processes

    Didier Maurice Grandjean;Klaus R. Scherer

  • Dissociable roles of the human somatosensory and superior temporal cortices for processing social face signals

    Gilles Pourtois;David Sander;Michael Andres;Didier Maurice Grandjean

  • Introducing the Geneva emotion recognition test: an example of Rasch-based test development.

    Katja Schlegel;Didier Maurice Grandjean;Klaus R. Scherer

  • Specific Brain Networks during Explicit and Implicit Decoding of Emotional Prosody

    Sascha Frühholz;Leonardo Ceravolo;Didier Grandjean

  • Emotional Processing in Parkinson’s Disease: A Systematic Review

    Julie Anne Peron;Julie Anne Peron;Thibaut Dondaine;Florence Le Jeune;Didier Maurice Grandjean

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus R. Scherer
Klaus R. Scherer University of Geneva
David Sander
David Sander University of Geneva
Sylvain Delplanque
Sylvain Delplanque University of Geneva
Marc Vérin
Marc Vérin University of Orléans
Patrik Vuilleumier
Patrik Vuilleumier University of Geneva
Petra Susan Hüppi
Petra Susan Hüppi University of Geneva
S. Craig Roberts
S. Craig Roberts University of Stirling
Gilles Pourtois
Gilles Pourtois Ghent University
Annett Schirmer
Annett Schirmer University of Innsbruck
Tobias Brosch
Tobias Brosch University of Geneva

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