EMOTIVA - How Emotion Motivate Action
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
Etienne Koechlin, DR INSERM, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Computationnelles, 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.
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 (Submited) Social threat avoidance depends on action-outcome predictability. PDF
Beaurenaut M, Kovarski K, Destais C, Mennella R & Grèzes J. (submitted) Spontaneous instrumental approach-avoidance learning in social contexts in Autism. PDF
El Zein M, Mennella R, Sequestro M, Meaux E, Wyart V & Grèzes J. (Accepted) Prioritized neural processing of social threats during perceptual decision-making. iScience, PDF
Mennella R & Grèzes J. (Accepted) 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.
SAS2021_Mennellaetal.pdfprèsentationSAS_RoccoMennella_2021.mp4SPR Virtual Annual Meeting 2021 - Symposium : Facial expressions: from low-level physical parameter to social actions
GREZES_SPR2021_Final.mp4