Lauri Nummenmaa

Neural Representations of Embodied Musical Emotions

The paper investigates how neural activity patterns correspond to self-reported bodily sensations during emotional music listening and finds significant alignment in specific brain regions.

Diurnal and seasonal regulation of brain mu-opioid and dopamine D2 receptor signalling in humans

The paper investigates diurnal and seasonal variations in brain mu-opioid and dopamine D2 receptor signaling in humans using PET data and finds MOR availability increases in the afternoon, with seasonal and trait-anxiety influences.

CEREBRAL GLUCOSE UTILISATION DURING MUSICAL EMOTIONS: A MULTIMODAL FUNCTIONAL PET/MRI STUDY.

This study uses PET/MRI to examine glucose metabolism and hemodynamic responses during pleasurable music listening, revealing complementary neural activity patterns in brain regions associated with reward and emotion.

Mapping the brain basis of appraisals and discrete emotions

This study investigates the neural correlates of appraisal processes and discrete emotions using fMRI, finding shared brain regions and better explanation by appraisal theories.

Endogenous Opioid System Modulates Neural Activation During Emotion Regulation

The paper investigates how baseline mu-opioid receptor availability relates to neural responses during emotion regulation using PET and fMRI.

Autistic traits modulate neural responses to social signals during natural vision

The paper examines how autistic traits affect neural responses to social signals in naturalistic stimuli using fMRI and finds consistent effects in the superior temporal gyrus across two experiments.

Emotions and bodily sensations evoked by cardiac adenosine stress

This study shows that peripheral physiological activation from adenosine stress testing can drive subjective emotional experiences, providing causal evidence for the embodied nature of emotions.

Convergent and selective representations of pain, appetitive processes, aversive processes, and cognitive control in the insula

The paper identifies convergent and selective functional zones in the insula using fMRI data, revealing a hierarchical convergence architecture across pain, appetitive, aversive, and cognitive control domains.

Reduced inter-subject functional connectivity during movies in autism: Replicability across cross-national fMRI datasets

The paper compares inter-subject functional connectivity (ISFC) between autistic and neurotypical individuals during movie-watching using fMRI data from two datasets, finding reduced ISFC in autistic groups.

Automated Long Axial Field of View PET Image Processing and Kinetic Modelling with the TurBO Toolbox

The paper introduces an automated pipeline for LAFOV PET data analysis, showing reliable parameter estimates and reduced manual effort.

Four-dimensional neural space for moral inference

The paper identifies four moral dimensions and their neural correlates during intuitive moral inference using fMRI and consensus clustering.

Inter-individual variability of neurotransmitter receptor and transporter density in the human brain

This study quantifies inter-individual variability in PET-estimated receptor and transporter density across 12 neurotransmitter systems in the human brain.

Striatal dopamine synthesis capacity in Parkinson's disease: Effects of age, sex, and body mass index in a large fluorodopa PET cohort

This study investigates how age, sex, and BMI affect striatal dopamine synthesis capacity in Parkinson's disease patients and healthy controls using PET data.

Endogenous opioid system modulates proximal and distal threat signals in the human brain

This study investigates how the endogenous opioid system modulates brain responses to threat and safety signals in humans using fMRI and PET.

Attentional reconfiguration during acute and sustained fear

This study examines how acute and sustained fear affect visual attention and arousal during a horror movie, finding distinct patterns in eye movement and physiological responses.

Exposure to bullying engages social distress circuits in the adolescent and adult brain

This study uses fMRI to examine neural responses to simulated bullying in adolescents and adults, finding activation of socio-emotional and threat response systems linked to victimization experiences.

GPT-4 accurately predicts human emotions and their neural correlates

This study shows GPT-4 can predict human emotion ratings and model associated neural responses with high accuracy.

Physical exercise and brain network dynamics: reduction of frontoparietal-striatal connectivity following 1 hour of aerobic cycling

This study examines changes in brain network dynamics after 60 minutes of aerobic cycling, finding reduced striato-frontoparietal connectivity.

Pleasurable music activates cerebral μ-opioid receptors: A combined PET-fMRI study

This study shows that pleasurable music activates μ-opioid receptors in the brain, as evidenced by PET and fMRI, and links individual differences in baseline receptor levels to pleasure responses.

Shared brain basis of aggression in clinical, forensic, and healthy samples: A meta-analysis

This study identifies a common neural network associated with aggression across clinical, forensic, and healthy populations through a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.

Cerebral Topographies of Perceived and Felt Emotions

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.

GPT-4V shows human-like social perceptual capabilities at phenomenological and neural levels

This paper evaluates GPT-4V's ability to annotate social features in images and videos, finding it matches human performance and neural representations.

Endogenous opioid receptor system mediates costly altruism in the human brain

The paper investigates how the endogenous opioid receptor system influences altruistic costly helping by linking MOR availability to brain activity during vicarious pain and helping behavior.

Modelling human social vision with cinematic stimuli

This study uses eye tracking and cinematic stimuli to model how different levels of visual information guide social perception, finding that low-level features and mid-level categories drive gaze, while high-level features affect pupil responses.

A taxonomy for human social perception: Data-driven modelling with cinematic stimuli

The paper identifies eight dimensions of social perception using data from movie clips and participant ratings, showing consistent patterns across different stimuli and populations.

Photoperiodicity in Glucose Metabolism in the Human Brain

This study shows that day length affects glucose metabolism in the human brain, specifically in the cuneus, over a 5-year period in healthy males.

Reward responses to vicarious feeding depend on BMI

This study uses fMRI to show that vicarious feeding activates motor and affective brain regions and that these responses decrease with higher BMI.

Seasonal variation in D2/3 dopamine receptor availability in the human brain

The paper investigates seasonal variation in D2/3 dopamine receptor availability in the human brain using PET scans and finds a negative correlation between daylength and receptor availability in the striatum.

Dopamine D2R and opioid MOR availability in autism spectrum disorder

This study investigates dopamine D2R and opioid MOR receptor availabilities in ASD using PET imaging and finds reduced D2R availability in striatum and nucleus accumbens, and MOR changes in hippocampi and precuneus.

Alterations in type 2 dopamine receptors across neuropsychiatric conditions: A large-scale PET cohort

This study examines D2R availability in neuropsychiatric conditions using PET data from 437 individuals, finding reduced availability in Parkinson's disease and altered interregional connectivity in schizophrenia, depression, and violent behavior.