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Heini Saarimäki, Lauri Nummenmaa, Sofia Volynets, Severi Santavirta, Anna Aksiuto, Mikko E. Sams, Iiro P. Jääskeläinen, Juha M. Lahnakoski
The paper investigates the cerebral organization of perceived and felt emotions using fMRI and emotional movies, revealing shared and distinct neural mechanisms across brain regions.
Imaging Neuroscience · Jan 1, 2025Peer-reviewedNeuroscience
Lauri Nummenmaa, Tuulia Malén, Sanaz Nazari‐Farsani, Kerttu Seppälä, Lihua Sun, Severi Santavirta, Henry K. Karlsson, Matthew Hudson, Jussi Hirvonen, Mikko E. Sams, Sophie Kerttu Scott, Vesa Putkinen
The paper investigates the neural basis of laughter and crying using fMRI and MVPA, finding distinct brain networks for each emotion with overlapping suppression.
NeuroImage · Apr 6, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience
Maria Hakonen, Arsi Ikäheimonen, Annika Hultén, Janne Kauttonen, Miika Koskinen, Fa‐Hsuan Lin, Anastasia Lowe, Mikko E. Sams, Iiro P. Jääskeläinen
This study shows that family cultural background influences brain processing of a spoken narrative, with shared background increasing neural similarity across multiple levels of language processing.
bioRxiv · May 11, 2020 · PreprintNeuroscience
Heini Saarimäki, Enrico Glerean, Dmitry Smirnov, Henri Mynttinen, Iiro P. Jääskeläinen, Mikko E. Sams, Lauri Nummenmaa
The paper uses pattern recognition on fMRI data to classify emotions based on functional connectivity, finding distinct patterns for most emotions but not sadness.
bioRxiv · Jan 17, 2020 · PreprintNeuroscience
Satu Saalasti, JUSSI S. ALHO, Moshe Bar, Enrico Glerean, Timo Honkela, Minna Kauppila, Mikko E. Sams, Iiro P. Jääskeläinen
The paper identifies brain regions associated with individualized meaning formation during narrative listening by analyzing inter-subject semantic and hemodynamic similarities.
Brain and Behavior · Apr 11, 2019Peer-reviewedNeuroscience
Athanasios Gotsopoulos, Heini Saarimäki, Enrico Glerean, Iiro P. Jääskeläinen, Mikko E. Sams, Lauri Nummenmaa, Jouko Lampinen
The paper evaluates importance extraction methods in neural network-based fMRI classification, finding that importance maps outperform univariate approaches in detecting overlapping and weakly informative patterns.
NeuroImage · Jun 30, 2018Peer-reviewedNeuroscience
Heini Saarimäki, Lara Farzaneh Ejtehadian, Enrico Glerean, Iiro P. Jääskeläinen, Patrik O. Vuilleumier, Mikko E. Sams, Lauri Nummenmaa
The paper identifies discrete neural activation patterns for 14 emotions using fMRI and pattern classification, showing distributed brain activity across multiple regions.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience · Mar 28, 2018Peer-reviewedNeuroscience
Satu Saalasti, JUSSI S. ALHO, Juha M. Lahnakoski, Mareike Bacha‐Trams, Enrico Glerean, Iiro P. Jääskeläinen, Uri Hasson, Mikko E. Sams
The paper investigates neural activity differences between lipreading, listening, and reading in individuals with varying lipreading skills, finding distinct brain activation patterns associated with skilled lipreading.
bioRxiv · Dec 14, 2017 · PreprintNeuroscience
Mareike Bacha‐Trams, Enrico Glerean, Robin Dunbar, Juha M. Lahnakoski, Elisa Ryyppö, Mikko E. Sams, Iiro P. Jääskeläinen
This study shows that knowledge of genetic relationships modulates brain activity during moral dilemmas involving siblings.
Scientific Reports · Oct 23, 2017Peer-reviewedNeuroscience