Etienne Roesch
Projects & Foci
- Affective Relevance
- PhD Student
- Project TM4: TM Methods
- PhD Student
Research activity
- List of publications page
- http://affectco.unige.ch/biblio/author/roesch
- Biographical note
Higher education
2004 — Exp. 2008 Ph.D. in Psychology ; University of Geneva (Switzerland), under the supervision of Prof. Scherer and Dr. Sander 2002 — 2003 M.Sc. in Cognitive Science ; University of Lyon (France), research under the supervision of Prof. Laurent (INSERM E0342, "Central integration of pain") 2001 — 2002 Hn.D. in Cognitive Science ; University of Lyon (France), research under the supervision of Prof. Paugam-Moisy (CNRS UMR 5015, "Connexionism and cognitive modeling") 2000 — 2001 B.Sc. in Cognitive Science ; University of Lyon (France) 1999 — 2000 B.Sc. in Computer Sciences ; Heriot-Watt University (United-Kingdom) 1997 — 1999 Hn.D. in Computer Sciences ; Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg (France) Positions
May 2004 to May, 2008 Teaching-Research Assistant — Geneva Emotion Research Group ; funding from HUMAINE, Network of Excellence in the EU\'s 6th Framework Programme January to May, 2004 Research Assistant — Harvard Psych. Dept., Affective Neuroscience Lab, Boston (U.S.A.) April to Sept., 1999 Computer Programmer — Fretwell-Downing Computer Group, Sheffield (U.K.) June to Sept., 1998 Computer Programmer — Société Générale Bank, Strasbourg (France) - Current research
Ph.D. — "Relevance detection: An alternative to the modular approach to threatening stimuli." (Title likely to change)
My own research focuses on the concept of relevance, as developed in appraisal theories of emotion (see Scherer, Schorr, Johnstone, 2001, for a review). The framework offered by appraisal theories lay on the hypothesis that emotions emerge from the cognitive evaluations made by the individual about the event that elicit the emotion. Scherer\'s Component Process Model (Scherer, 2001) argues for a finite sequence of appraisal evaluations that, in turn, inform and influence the five organismic components of emotions (i.e., the appraisal processes, the autonomic physiology, the action tendencies, the motor expression, and the subjective feeling).
The process of relevance appraisal allows to determine the pertinence, the importance, of an event, a situation, in regards to the hierarchy of goals and needs of the individual (Scherer, 2001). We therefore hypothesize that relevant stimuli will lead differential emotional responses, in contrast to non-relevant stimuli. We apply this theoretical framework to the study of cognitive biases in phobias. In addition to behavioral studies, I would like to extend this work to neuroimaging, along with the realistic modelling of the neural circuitry involved. My advisors are Prof. Klaus R. Scherer, and Dr. David Sander.
Key words: emotion theories; attention; phobias; cognitive biases; personality theories; computational modelling.
I am also actively involved in the following research projects ..
- HUMAINE (Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotion) is a Network of Excellence in the EU\'s 6th Framework Programme. This project gathers 27 european research teams from 11 different countries with the aim of laying the foundations for systems that can register, model and/or influence human emotional states and processes (a.k.a. emotion-oriented systems).
- ICCRA (International Cross-cultural Consortium for Research on Affect) is a newborn consortium of researchers that aims at studying emotions on a cross-cultural level.
- Formerly a member of Diego Pizzagalli\'s Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, I am still involved in a study that aims at assessing attentional biases in patients with social phobia, combining behavioral measures and neuroimaging techniques (EEG).
- A joint project with Dr. Lionel Reveret, EVASION-INRIA, developing FACSGen, a novel software that will allow researchers to create synthetic, both static and dynamic, realistic 3D facial expressions, on the basis of the well-known Facial Action Coding System (Ekman, Friesen, & Hager, 2002).
- List of publications
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HUMAINE-related activities
Roesch, E.B., Fontaine, J.R., Scherer, K.R. (2006). The world of emotions is two-dimensional .. or is it?. Presentation at the 3rd HUMAINE Summer School, Genova (September 21-28, 2006). pdf – http://emotion-research.net/ws/summerschool3/
Roesch, E.B., Banziger, T., Scherer, K. R. (2005). D3e – Proposal for exemplars and work towards it: Theories and Models. Technical report of HUMAINE, Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotions, IST-FP6 Contract No 507422. November, 2005.
http://emotion-research.net/deliverables/D3e%20final.pdfRoesch, E. B. (2005). Assessing the semantic spaces of affect labels across languages. Presentation at the HUMAINE plenary meeting. Technical report of HUMAINE, Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotions, IST-FP6 Contract No 507422, May 24-27, 2005, New Castle, Irland.
http://emotion-research.net/deliverables/Plenary2005/Roesch, E. B. (2004). D0a – Periodic report HUMAINE Jan-Dec 2004. Technical report of HUMAINE, Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotions, IST-FP6 Contract No 507422. December 2004.
Roesch, E. B., Scherer, K. R. (2004). D3b – Proposal for methods toolbox. Technical report of HUMAINE, Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotions, IST-FP6 Contract No 507422. December, 12, 2004.
http://emotion-research.net/deliverables/D3b-ProposalForMethodsToolbox.pdfRoesch, E. B., Banziger, T., Scherer, K. R. (2004). D3d – Description of potential exemplars: Theories and Models. Technical report of HUMAINE, Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotions, IST-FP6 Contract No 507422. November 30, 2004.
http://emotion-research.net/deliverables/D3d%20potential%20exemplars%20theory.pdfRoesch, E. B. (2004). "Ekman versus Scherer" or "What is important to recognize/express emotions?" Selected studies by Prof. Kaiser. Presentation at the 2nd HUMAINE workshop: Signal Analysis. Technical report of HUMAINE, Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotions, IST-FP6 Contract No 507422. September 18-23, 2004, Santorini, Greece.
http://emotion-research.net/ws/wp4/Grandjean, D. R., Roesch, E. B. (2004). Wavelets analysis applied to emotional signals. Poster presented at the second HUMAINE workshop: Signal Analysis. Technical report of HUMAINE, Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotions, IST-FP6 Contract No 507422. September 18-23, 2004, Santorini, Greece.
http://emotion-research.net/ws/wp4/Roesch, E. B. (2004). D3a – Proceedings of the first HUMAINE workshop: Theories and Models. HUMAINE, Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotions, IST-FP6 Contract No 507422, June 17-19, 2004, Geneva, Switzerland.
http://emotion-research.net/ws/wp3/Roesch, E. B., Banziger, T., Scherer, K. R. (2004) D3c – Preliminary plans for exemplars: Theory and Models. Technical report of HUMAINE, Human-Machine Interaction Network on Emotions, IST-FP6 Contract No 507422, May 31, 2004.
http://emotion-research.net/deliverables/D3c.pdf
