
Lauri
Nummenmaa
Professor
PhD
Areas of expertise
Emotions
Psychology
Neurotransmission
Neuroimaging
Biography
I did my undergraduate studies majoring in psychology at University of Turku, Finland. I defended my PhD on neurocognitive mechanisms of social attention at University of Turku in 2006. After that, I worked as a post-doc at the MRC CBU in Cambridge, UK studying neural mechanisms of face perception in Andy Calder’s group. I returned to Finland in 2008, to work as Academy of Finland junior fellow and subsequently as senior fellow at Turku Pet Center and Aalto University. After a four-year appointment as Assistant professor in cognitive neuroscience at Aalto University, I returned to the University of Turku with my laboratory. Currently I lead the Human Emotion Systems laboratory at Turku PET Centre and Department of Psychology, University of Turku.
Teaching
Our group focuses on training world-class PhDs, and junior & senior scientists in neuroscience and signal analysis.
Research
Our group studies functional and molecular neural mechanisms of human emotions and social interaction in complex, life-like settings with magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, magneto- and electroencephalography and behavioural techniques. I have written over 100 scientific articles on brain basis of emotions and social cognition, and acquired more than 4M€ grant money for our group. Currently our research is funded by the European Research Council, the Academy of Finland, The Sigrid Juselius Foundation and the Emil Aaltonen Foundation.
Publications
Imaging Real-Time Tactile Interaction With Two-Person Dual-Coil fMRI (2020)
Frontiers in Psychiatry
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Relationship-specific Encoding of Social Touch in Somatosensory and Insular Cortices (2020)
Neuroscience
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Magia: Robust Automated Image Processing and Kinetic Modeling Toolbox for PET Neuroinformatics (2020)
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Brain substrate metabolism and ß-cell function in humans: A positron emission tomography study (2020)
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Interindividual variability and lateralization of mu-opioid receptors in the human brain (2020)
NeuroImage
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Automated segmentation of acute stroke lesions using a data-driven anomaly detection on diffusion weighted MRI (2020)
Journal of Neuroscience Methods
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Statistical pattern recognition reveals shared neural signatures for displaying and recognizing specific facial expressions (2020)
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Brain free fatty acid uptake is elevated in morbid obesity, and is irreversible 6 months after bariatric surgery: A positron emission tomography study (2020)
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Lowered endogenous mu-opioid receptor availability in subclinical depression and anxiety (2020)
Neuropsychopharmacology
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)
Cross-cultural similarity in relationship-specific social touching (2019)
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
(A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä)