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Patrik Vuilleumier

Patrik Vuilleumier

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Neuroscience
Switzerland
2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
111
Citations
45560
World Ranking
523
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Patrik Vuilleumier is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a substantial focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Additional subfields explored include Psychiatry and Mental Health, Social Psychology, and Clinical Psychology.

The core topics of Patrik Vuilleumier's work involve the study of Functional Brain Connectivity, Neural and Behavioral Psychology, and Mental Health Research. Other notable research themes include Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Face Recognition and Perception, and Emotion and Mood Recognition.

The scientist has contributed to a variety of publication venues. Their frequent outlets include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), NeuroImage, Cerebral Cortex, Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, and Human Brain Mapping.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Patrik Vuilleumier are:

  • Consensus on the reporting and experimental design of clinical and cognitive-behavioural neurofeedback studies (CRED-nf checklist), 2020, Brain
  • The rise of affectivism, 2021, Nature Human Behaviour
  • The role of the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex in dorsomedial prefrontal-amygdala neural circuitry during positive-social emotion regulation, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Functional connectivity fingerprints of the human pulvinar: Decoding its role in cognition, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Depressive symptoms in cognitively unimpaired older adults are associated with lower structural and functional integrity in a frontolimbic network, 2022, Molecular Psychiatry

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their scientific activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Dimitri Van De Ville
  • Gaël Chételat
  • Olga Klimecki
  • Natalie L. Marchant
  • Géraldine Poisnel

Best Publications

  • How brains beware: neural mechanisms of emotional attention.

    Patrik Vuilleumier

  • Effects of attention and emotion on face processing in the human brain: An event-related fMRI study

    Patrik Vuilleumier;Jorge L. Armony;Jon Driver;Raymond J. Dolan

  • Distinct spatial frequency sensitivities for processing faces and emotional expressions.

    Patrik Vuilleumier;Jorge L Armony;Jorge L Armony;Jon Driver;Raymond J Dolan

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

    Patrik Vuilleumier;Gilles Pourtois

  • Distant influences of amygdala lesion on visual cortical activation during emotional face processing.

    Patrik Vuilleumier;Mark P Richardson;Jorge L Armony;Jorge L Armony;Jon Driver

  • 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

  • Perceptual awareness and its loss in unilateral neglect and extinction

    John Driver;Patrik Vuilleumier

  • The processing of emotional facial expression is gated by spatial attention: Evidence from event-related brain potentials.

    Amanda Holmes;Patrik Vuilleumier;Martin Eimer

  • Multiple levels of visual object constancy revealed by event-related fMRI of repetition priming

    P. Vuilleumier;R. N. Henson;J. Driver;Raymond J. Dolan

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

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

  • Neuroanatomy of hemispatial neglect and its functional components: a study using voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping.

    Vincent Verdon;Sophie Schwartz;Karl-Olof Lovblad;Claude-Alain Hauert

  • Functional neuroanatomical correlates of hysterical sensorimotor loss

    Patrik Vuilleumier;Christian Chicherio;Frédéric Assal;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

  • Modulation of visual processing by attention and emotion: windows on causal interactions between human brain regions

    Patrik Vuilleumier;Jon Driver

  • Discrete Neural Signatures of Basic Emotions

    Heini Saarimäki;Athanasios Gotsopoulos;Iiro P. Jääskeläinen;Jouko Lampinen

  • Emotional facial expressions capture attention

    Patrik Vuilleumier;Sophie Schwartz

  • Supramodal Representations of Perceived Emotions in the Human Brain

    Marius V. Peelen;Anthony P. Atkinson;Patrik Vuilleumier

  • Principal components of functional connectivity: A new approach to study dynamic brain connectivity during rest

    Nora Leonardi;Nora Leonardi;Jonas Richiardi;Jonas Richiardi;Markus A. Gschwind;Markus A. Gschwind;Samanta Simioni

  • Attentional Load and Sensory Competition in Human Vision: Modulation of fMRI Responses by Load at Fixation during Task-irrelevant Stimulation in the Peripheral Visual Field

    Sophie Schwartz;Patrik Vuilleumier;Chloe Hutton;Angelo Maravita

  • Connectivity-based neurofeedback: Dynamic causal modeling for real-time fMRI

    Yury Koush;Yury Koush;Maria Joao Rosa;Fabien Robineau;Klaartje Heinen

Frequent Co-Authors

Sophie Schwartz
Sophie Schwartz University of Geneva
Dimitri Van De Ville
Dimitri Van De Ville École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Gilles Pourtois
Gilles Pourtois Ghent University
David Sander
David Sander University of Geneva
Martin Desseilles
Martin Desseilles University of Namur
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Margitta Seeck
Margitta Seeck University of Geneva
Jean-Marie Annoni
Jean-Marie Annoni University of Fribourg
Theodor Landis
Theodor Landis University of Geneva
Masud Husain
Masud Husain University of Oxford

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