Clinical Neuroscience Meets Second-Person Neuropsychiatry; chapter together with ⁦Juha Lahnakoski⁩ researchgate.net/publication/36…

Cerebral Topographies of Perceived and Felt Emotions biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

How similarly does our brain respond to emotions we feel and see depicted in the movies? Are multidimensional emotion responses context-specific or similar across movies? See our new preprint Heini Saarimäki Lauri Nummenmaa & co: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

How does your brain generate feelings? A tour-de-force preprint from Turku PET Centre reveals how the external world is mapped into fine-grained emotional topography tuned for eight affective dimensions: doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

Very excited for our new paper on spontaneous emergence of Interpersonal Neural #Synchrony (INS). We show that, even without a structured social task, INS emerges spontaneously.This #spontaneous INS was rooted in behavioral synchrony of notable social cues doi.org/10.1016/j.neur…

Do you have digital phenotyping data and in need of preprocessing? This is for you Try the #niimpy toolbox for analyzing digital behavioral data, an effort led by Arsi Ikäheimonen and Talayeh Aledavood in the digital traces lab at Aalto University Paper here: surl.li/jleqr

(How) Can social cognition be improved by stimulation? 👥🧠 In this Frontiers Research Topic we Leonhard Schilbach bring together expertise on stimulation techniques, brain mapping and psychiatric symptoms. Join and send us your Abstracts and/or manuscript! 👇 frontiersin.org/research-topic…

Behold the most amazing Turku PET Centre Emotion Lab bodymap study ever! This time we mapped the bodily representations of emotions in ancient Assyrian texts with Juha Lahnakoski and Saana Svärd's team. A preprint now out: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Ever wonder what happens in your brain when you feel love for your partner, child or pet? Check out our fresh paper on brain correlates of different types of love: doi.org/10.1093/cercor…

To ancient Assyrians, the liver was the seat of happiness Cutting-edge computational techniques are shedding light on how the emotional experiences of past cultures compare to ours By Juha Lahnakoski & Ellie Bennett for Psyche magazine Psyche Magazine psyche.co/ideas/to-ancie…

A research topic can be something as fascinating as how the ancient Mesopotamians experienced emotions in their bodies thousands of years ago! In brief, the ancients felt happiness in the liver, anger in their feet and love in the liver, heart and knees. bit.ly/4f3nSMO

Our article on embodied emotions in ancient Mesopotamia is now out in iScience journal bit.ly/4f3nSMO. When you are not feeling like reading the whole paper, why not have a look at our piece in Psyche Magazine here: psyche.co/ideas/to-ancie…

This was a fantastic collaboration between Turku PET Centre , Aalto University and others spearheaded by the brilliant Juha Lahnakoski , more to come as usual!