Dr Maël Mauchand

Dr Maël Mauchand

Post-doctoral researcher
University of Geneva

Campus Biotech
Chemin des Mines 9
1202 Genève
Switzerland

Email. Mael.Mauchand@unige.ch

Maël Mauchand is a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences. He pursued a bachelor in Cognitive Science at McGill University (Canada) from 2014 to 2017, where he also received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience under the supervision of Prof. Marc D. Pell in 2023. His thesis focused on the neural basis of empathy in vocal interactions and investigated how emotive voices elicit empathic responses in various social and cultural contexts, using EEG and fMRI. More generally, his research pertains to the interpersonal role of prosody and the relationship between the production and perception of emotions and attitudes in the voice.

Publications

Publications:

2023

Thèse de Doctorat

Mauchand, M. (2023). From emotive voices to empathic brains: A neuropragmatic investigation of complaint processing [Thèse].

Articles Scientifiques

Mauchand, M. & Pell, M.D. (2023). Complain like you mean it! How prosody conveys suffering even about innocuous events. Brain and Language, 244, 105305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2023.105305

2022

Mauchand, M. & Pell, M. D. (2022). Listen to my feelings! How prosody and accent drive the empathic relevance of complaints. Neuropsychologia, 175, 108356. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108356

Mauchand, M. & Zhang, S. (2022). Disentangling emotional signals in the brain: an ALE meta-analysis of vocal affect perception. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-022-01030-y

Mauchand, M. & Pell, M.D. (2022). French or Québécois? How speaker accents shape implicit and explicit intergroup attitudes among francophones in Montréal. Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science, 54(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000292

2021

Caballero, J., Mauchand, M., Jiang, X., & Pell, M.D. (2021). Cortical processing of speaker politeness: tracking the dynamic effects of voice tone and politeness markers. Social Neuroscience, 16(4), 423-438. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2021.1938667

Mauchand, M. & Pell, M. D. (2021). Emotivity in the Voice: Prosodic, Lexical, and Cultural Appraisal of Complaining Speech. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.619222

Mauchand, M., Caballero, J., Jiang, X., & Pell, M.D. (2021). Immediate on-line use of prosody reveals a speaker's ironic intentions: neurophysiological evidence. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci, 21, 74-92. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-020-00849-7

2020

Mauchand, M., Vergis, N., & Pell, M. D. (2020). Irony, prosody, and social impressions of affective stance. Discourse Processes, 57(2), 141-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2019.1581588