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Judith Domínguez-Borràs
Associate Professor
After obtaining my PhD at the University of Barcelona (2008), I became a postdoctoral and senior researcher at the Department of Neuroscience/Campus Biotech, University of Geneva (Switzerland). I am currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology and research fellow at the Institute of Neurosciences (UB).
I am an associate professor at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology and research fellow at the Institute of Neurosciences (UB). After obtaining my PhD at the University of Barcelona with Prof. Carles Escera, with several research stays at the University of Bremen (Germany), I became a postdoctoral and senior researcher at the Department of Neuroscience/Campus Biotech, University of Geneva (Switzerland) with Prof. Patrik Vuilleumier, funded with several different grants (Beatriu de Pinós -Generalitat de Catalunya, Marie Curie COFUND -European Comission, Ambizione -Swiss National Science Foundation).
I am interested in the neural basis of emotion interactions with perception and attention, and more specifically on amygdala function and its role in awareness. I have mainly used human electrophysiology (scalp-EEG, intracranial EEG), neuroimaging (functional MRI), behavioral and other physiological measures (eye-tracking, electrodermal response).
Current team
Martina Trisia Cinca-Tomás (PhD student)
Emmanouela Kosteletou (PhD student)
Christian Ramelow (Research assistant)
HumanSUBthreat
Our new project, recently funded by the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator grants; PI: Judith Domínguez-Borràs), aims at studying the subcortical neural pathways for threat detection within the auditory system. The project involves state-of-the-art electrophysiological and neuroimaging techniques to identify neural routes to the amygdala, and to test their anatomo-functional properties and temporal dynamics in humans.
Preprints
Legendre, G.; Moyne, M.; Domínguez-Borràs, J.; Kumar, S.; Sterpenich, V.; Schwartz, S.; Arnal, L. (2022). Scream’s roughness confers a privileged access to the brain during sleep. BioRxiv 2022.09.05.506631. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.05.506631
Book chapters
Domínguez-Borràs, J., Bourgeois, A., Vuilleumier, P. (2024). Affective biases in perception, attention and awareness (in press). In: P. Vuilleumier and J. L. Armony (Eds.). Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience, 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, New York.
Domínguez-Borràs, J. & Vuilleumier, P. (2022). Amygdala function in emotion, cognition, and behavior. In G. Miceli, P. Bartolomeo, V. Navarro. The temporal lobe. Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Elsevier, 187: 359-380.
Domínguez-Borràs, J. & Vuilleumier, P. (2016). Shivers down the brain. In D. Sander (Ed.). Emotions (p.60). Benteli Publishing, Zürich. ISBN 9783716518212.
Gupta, R., Domínguez-Borràs, J., Vuilleumier, P. (2015). Neural correlates of emotion- and reward-driven attentional capture (pp. 28-31). Affective Neuroscience ebook. Quaderns del campus per la pau. Editorial Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). ISBN 978-84-9064-527-7.
Domínguez-Borràs, J., Vuilleumier, P. (2013). Affective biases in attention and perception (pp. 331-356). In: P. Vuilleumier and J. L. Armony (Eds.). Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience. Cambridge University Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-107-00111-4.
Domínguez-Borràs, J., Escera, C. (2008). Attentional bias towards threatening emotional face expressions. (pp. 99-112). In: Balconi, M. (Ed.). Emotional face comprehension. Neuropsychological perspectives. New York: Nova Science Publishers. ISBN 978-1-60456-759-5.
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