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Gilles Pourtois

Gilles Pourtois

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Neuroscience

D-Index
59
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16659
World Ranking
3948
National Ranking
47

Overview

Gilles Pourtois is a researcher affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium. Their work spans multiple areas within neuroscience and psychology, focusing on cognitive and social aspects as well as brain dynamics.

The primary fields of study for Pourtois include neuroscience and psychology, with a strong emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Other subfields they have contributed to are social psychology, applied psychology, and general decision sciences.

Key topics in Pourtois' research include neural and behavioral psychology studies, neural dynamics and brain function, behavioral health and interventions, decision-making and behavioral economics, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, visual perception and processing mechanisms, and memory and neural mechanisms.

Pourtois has published extensively in a number of prominent scientific venues. Their most frequent publication venues are:

  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Psychophysiology
  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Cortex

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Pourtois include Katharina Paul, David Sander, Sam Verschooren, Qian Yang, and Xiaojuan Xue.

Relevant recent publications by Pourtois and their collaborators are:

  • The rise of affectivism, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • #EEGManyLabs: Investigating the replicability of influential EEG experiments, 2021, Cortex
  • One hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research, 2024, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Comparison of the determinants for positive and negative affect proposed by appraisal theories, goal-directed theories, and predictive processing theories, 2021, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • Finding a balance: modulatory effects of positive affect on attentional and cognitive control, 2021, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Best Publications

  • Distributed and interactive brain mechanisms during emotion face perception: Evidence from functional neuroimaging

    Patrik Vuilleumier;Gilles Pourtois

  • Revisiting Snodgrass and Vanderwart's object pictorial set : the role of surface detail in basic-level object recognition

    Bruno Rossion;Gilles Pourtois

  • Electrophysiological Correlates of Rapid Spatial Orienting Towards Fearful Faces

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

  • Brain mechanisms for emotional influences on perception and attention: What is magic and what is not

    Gilles Pourtois;Antonio Schettino;Patrik Vuilleumier

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

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

  • Non-conscious recognition of affect in the absence of striate cortex

    B de Gelder;J Vroomen;Gilles Pourtois;L Weiskrantz

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

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

  • Beyond Fear Rapid Spatial Orienting Toward Positive Emotional Stimuli

    Tobias Brosch;David Sander;Gilles Pourtois;Klaus R. Scherer

  • The perception and categorisation of emotional stimuli: A review

    Tobias Brosch;Gilles Pourtois;David Sander

  • 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

  • White-Matter Connectivity between Face-Responsive Regions in the Human Brain

    Markus A. Gschwind;Gilles Pourtois;Sophie Schwartz;Dimitri Van De Ville;Dimitri Van De Ville

  • Top-down effects on early visual processing in humans: A predictive coding framework

    Karsten Rauss;Sophie Schwartz;Gilles Pourtois

  • Transient state-dependent fluctuations in anxiety measured using STAI, POMS, PANAS or VAS: a comparative review

    Valentina Rossi;Gilles Pourtois

  • Simultaneous recording of EEG and facial muscle reactions during spontaneous emotional mimicry.

    Amal Achaibou;Gilles Pourtois;Sophie Schwartz;Patrik Vuilleumier

  • Perception of facial expressions and voices and of their combination in the human brain.

    Gilles Pourtois;Gilles Pourtois;Beatrice de Gelder;Beatrice de Gelder;Anne Bol;Marc Crommelinck

  • The time-course of intermodal binding between seeing and hearing affective information

    Gilles Pourtois;Beatrice de Gelder;CA Jean Vroomen;Bruno Rossion

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

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

  • Unavoidable errors: a spatio-temporal analysis of time-course and neural sources of evoked potentials associated with error processing in a speeded task

    Roland Vocat;Gilles Pourtois;Patrik Vuilleumier

  • Neural systems for orienting attention to the location of threat signals: an event-related fMRI study.

    Gilles Pourtois;Sophie Schwartz;Mohamed L. Seghier;François Lazeyras

  • Accelerated intermittent theta burst stimulation treatment in medication-resistant major depression: A fast road to remission?

    Romain Duprat;Stefanie Desmyter;De Raedt Rudi;Kees van Heeringen

  • INVITED REVIEW The perception and categorisation of emotional stimuli: A review

    Tobias Brosch;Gilles Pourtois

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrik Vuilleumier
Patrik Vuilleumier University of Geneva
David Sander
David Sander University of Geneva
Sophie Schwartz
Sophie Schwartz University of Geneva
Rudi De Raedt
Rudi De Raedt Ghent University
Agnes Moors
Agnes Moors KU Leuven
Beatrice de Gelder
Beatrice de Gelder Maastricht University
Margitta Seeck
Margitta Seeck University of Geneva
Marcel Brass
Marcel Brass Ghent University
Mohamed L. Seghier
Mohamed L. Seghier Khalifa University
Bruno Rossion
Bruno Rossion University of Lorraine

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