Roland Jouvent

Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Collège de France

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Roland Jouvent is a pioneering French neuroscientist whose research bridges cognitive neuroscience, affective computing, and human-robot interaction. His work explores how the human brain processes emotional expressions, particularly in non-humanoid contexts. In his highly cited 2010 study (73 citations), Jouvent demonstrated that the brain's emotional response systems extend beyond human faces to non-humanoid robots, revealing that our neural architecture rapidly computes emotional cues from artificial agents—a finding with profound implications for robotics and artificial intelligence. His earlier research on trait anxiety and perceptual avoidance (2000, 21 citations) examined eye deviation during rotation in darkness, uncovering early markers of anxiety-related perceptual strategies. Jouvent's contributions have advanced understanding of emotional cognition, affective neuroscience, and the neural underpinnings of human-robot interaction. His work is foundational for researchers studying how emotional processing adapts to artificial entities, and his findings continue to influence fields ranging from clinical psychology to human-robot collaboration.