Collaboration with
Rocco Mennella, MCF Université Paris Nanterre & Laboratoire des Interactions Cognition Action Émotion (LICAÉ, EA2931).
Elisabeth Pacherie, DR INSERM, Institut Jean Nicod, ENS, Paris
Mattéo Sequestro, ANR PhD Student
With the help of several internships: M. Pagliari, C. Dijoux, I. Mentec, J. Serfaty, C. Destais, L. Bottein, L. Sturm
In this interdisciplinary project, we propose to investigate the specific contribution of goal-directed processes to the emergence of adaptive socio-emotional behavior, by pooling together expertise from affective neuroscience, philosophy of action, decision-making and computational modelling. We aim at testing the hypotheses (1) that responses to socio-emotional stimuli, such as facial expressions of others, can engage GD processes, in addition to SR ones; and (2) that not only SR, but also GD processes can covertly – and thus implicitly – influence our decisions in socio-emotional contexts.
Publications
Sequestro M, Serfaty J, Grèzes J & Mennella R (2024) Social threat avoidance depends on action-outcome predictability. Communication Psychology. PDF
Beaurenaut M, Kovarski K, Destais C, Mennella R & Grèzes J. (2024) Spontaneous instrumental approach-avoidance learning in social contexts in Autism. Molecular Autism 15, 33. PDF
El Zein M, Mennella R, Sequestro M, Meaux E, Wyart V & Grèzes J. (2024) Prioritized neural processing of social threats during perceptual decision-making. iScience, PDF
Mennella R & Grèzes J. (In press) How emotional expressions motivate action. Preprint for a Chapter for Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience, 2nd ed. PDF
Grèzes J. & Risch N., Courtet P., Olié E. & Mennella R. (2023). Depression and approach-avoidance decisions to emotional displays: the role of anhedonia. Behaviour Research and Therapy. PDF & Supplementary
Mennella R, Bavard S, Mentec I, Grèzes J. (2022) Spontaneous instrumental avoidance learning in social contexts. Scientific Reports, Sci Rep 12, 17528 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22334-6, PDF
Grèzes J., Erblang M., Vilarem E., Quiquempoix M., Van Beers P., Guillard M., Sauvet F., Mennella R. & Rabat A. (2021). Impact of total sleep deprivation and related mood changes on approach-avoidance decision to threat-related facial displays. Sleep: doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsab186. PDF
Related Publications
Mennella R., Vilarem E., Grèzes J. (2020) Rapid approach-avoidance responses to emotional displays reflect value-based decisions: Neural evidence from an EEG study. Neuroimage.222:117253. PDF
Vilarem E., Armony J.L., Grèzes J. (2019) Action opportunities modulate attention allocation under social threat. Emotion, doi:10.1037/emo0000598 PDF
Press, conferences and posters associated to the project
PSL actualités - here
SAS 2021 Abstract and Talk presenting preliminary data by Rocco Mennella - see below.
SPR Virtual Annual Meeting 2021 - Symposium : Facial expressions: from low-level physical parameter to social actions