Lauri
Nummenmaa
Professor, Turku PET Centre
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
Bodily maps of emotions (2014)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Emotional speech synchronizes brains across listeners and engages large-scale dynamic brain networks (2014)
NeuroImage
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Cardiovascular risk prediction in children and adolescents (2014)
Clinical Biochemistry
(Kirjoitus tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (B1))
Mental action simulation synchronizes action-observation circuits across individuals (2014)
Journal of Neuroscience
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotion is Related to their Frequency in Everyday Life (2014)
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Facial expression recognition in peripheral versus central vision: role of the eyes and the mouth. (2014)
Psychological Research
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Weight loss following bariatric surgery recovers decreased brain volumes but not increased fatty acid metabolism in the morbidly obese: a combined PET and VBM study (2014)
Diabetologia
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
A smile biases the recognition of eye expressions: Configural projection from a salient mouth (2013)
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Just watching the game ain't enough: striatal fMRI reward responses to successes and failures in a video game during active and vicarious playing (2013)
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Lihavuus herkistää aivot insuliinille – Weight loss after bariatric surgery reverses insulin-induced increases in brain glucose metabolism of the morbidly obese (2013)
Weight loss after bariatric surgery reverses insulin-induced increases in brain glucose metabolism of the morbidly obese
(Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys (D4))