Kerttu Seppälä

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The paper investigates the neural basis of laughter and crying using fMRI and MVPA, finding distinct brain networks for each emotion with overlapping suppression.

The paper examines neural responses to biological motion in neurotypical individuals, finding distinct associations with autistic and schizotypal traits through fMRI and synchronization analysis.

The paper compares neural responses to emotional stimuli in psychopathy and high-functioning autism, finding distinct patterns of somatomotor alterations.

The paper uses brain activity patterns from visual sexual stimuli to accurately classify sex in subjects.

This study maps neural responses to social features in the human brain using fMRI and identifies spatial patterns of social perception.

The paper investigates the neural basis of music-evoked emotions using fMRI, finding distinct brain activity patterns for different emotions in auditory and motor regions.

This study identifies distinct neural systems for acute and sustained fear using fMRI and ISC analysis in humans watching horror movies.