Emotion and Reward
Emotion research has been focusing on negative threatening stimuli for decades, proposing mechanistic models of fear and their links with anxiety disorders.
In this line of research , we adopt a similar approach. We focus on positive rewarding stimuli to find mechanisms involved in pleasure and their link with addiction disorders. We use techniques and theoretical models from emotion research to conceptualize the affective processes involved in reward processing. We strive to find appropriate measures of the affective response to reward in humans at a neural and behavioral level.
Relevant Publications
Pool, E. R.*, Munoz Tord, D.*, Delplanque, S., Stussi, Y., Cereghetti, D., Vuilleumier, P., & Sander, D. (2022). Differential contributions of ventral striatum subregions to the motivational and hedonic components of affective processing of reward. The Journal of Neuroscience, 42(13), 2716-2728.
Pool, E. R., Brosch, T., Delplanque, S., & Sander, D. (2016). Attentional bias for positive emotional stimuli: A meta-analytic investigation. Psychological Bulletin, 142(1), 79–106
Pool, E. R., Sennwald, V., Delplanque, S., Brosch, T., & Sander, D. (2016). Measuring wanting and liking from animals to humans: A systematic review. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 63, 124–142.