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Seeing touch and haptic events entrains the brain activity
Researchers measured brain activity in volunteers who were given tactile stimuli while watching a movie.
Nina Forss appointed Adjunct Professor
The area of expertise is cognitive neurology.
Harri Piitulainen becomes Academy Research Fellow
The Research Council decided to grant Academy Research Fellow salary funding to 11 applicants for the period 1 September 2016 ‒ 31 August 2021.
Aalto Behavioral Laboratory – behavioural research for everyone
Aalto Behavioral Laboratory opened in Otaniemi last autumn and has since then provided versatile services to researchers.
Plans begin for Finland's first high-field magnetic resonance imaging centre
The memo of the Ultra-High Field MRI: Transition to Human 7 T in Finland symposium, held in autumn 2015, has been published.
Finnish research team maps the human erogenous zones
Finnish researchers have revealed a map of bodily regions capable of triggering sexual arousal when touched
Aalto scientists editors of theme issue combining neurosciences and social sciences
Riitta Hari, Mikko Sams and Lauri Nummenmaa have edited the theme issue ‘Attending to and neglecting people’.
Major funding for developing a new brain research method at Aalto University
Brain imaging has given us a lot of data concerning, for example, how human brains process sensory information.
Open research data improves trust in science
Aalto University supports the openness and good management of research material.
Health Capital Helsinki brings together top experts
Broad cooperation is needed in the creation of new companies, in order for the right know-how and people to find each other.
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Biodesign Finland brings new solutions to the hospital world
An interdisciplinary team will develop biomedical technologies that can be commercialised.
Riitta Salmelin receives Justine & Yves Sergent award
The awards is a well know prestige among international brain imaging researchers
Lauri Nummenmaa receives 2015 Academy of Finland Award
Professor Nummenmaa, who has gained international recognition for his brain research, was awarded the Award for Social Impact.
Bodily maps of touch and social relationships are tightly linked
Bodily maps of touch are consistent across a wide range of European cultures.
For the benefit of people
Pinning down brain disease is a contact sport, Professor of Systems Neuroscience Matti Hämäläinen has found during his career.
Towards more accurate neuroimaging
Aalto University was one of the organisers of a ultra-high MRI themed workshop.
Obesity surgery normalizes brain opioids
Researchers have revealed how obesity surgery recovers opioid neurotransmission in the brain.
Unexpected link between choroid plexus and chronic pain
An observation by Finnish researchers shows that the central nervous system plays an important role in complex regional pain syndrome.
Further development of brain research instrument receives seven-figure sum in funding
The aim of the project is to develop an instrument combining magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetoencephalography (MEG).