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2026
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Finland
2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
92
Citations
33464
World Ranking
1018
National Ranking
5

Psychology

D-Index
92
Citations
33443
World Ranking
878
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Finland Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Finland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Finland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Finland Leader Award
  • 2006 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Kimmo Alho is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and works primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology. Their research focuses on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, with additional interests in Education, Psychiatry and Mental health, as well as Sociology and Political Science.

Their main topics of research include:

  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Among the frequent co-authors collaborating with Kimmo Alho are:

  • Patrik Wikman (13 co-authored works)
  • Viljami Salmela (9 co-authored works)
  • Katariina Salmela-Aro (7 co-authored works)
  • Matti Laine (6 co-authored works)
  • Artturi Ylinen (6 co-authored works)

Their publications are often found in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 5 publications
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience with 2 publications
  • Cerebral Cortex with 2 publications
  • European Journal of Neuroscience with 2 publications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 2 publications

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Kimmo Alho include:

  • Effects of Media Multitasking and Video Gaming on Cognitive Functions and Their Neural Bases in Adolescents and Young Adults, 2022, published in European Psychologist
  • Social Media Use and Depressive Symptoms-A Longitudinal Study from Early to Late Adolescence, 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Are Schools Alienating Digitally Engaged Students? Longitudinal Relations between Digital Engagement and School Engagement, 2020, Frontline Learning Research
  • Modulation of Brain Activity by Selective Attention to Audiovisual Dialogues, 2020, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Working memory training restores aberrant brain activity in adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, 2020, Human Brain Mapping

Kimmo Alho was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2006.

Best Publications

  • The mismatch negativity (MMN) in basic research of central auditory processing: a review.

    R. Näätänen;R. Näätänen;P. Paavilainen;T. Rinne;K. Alho

  • Language-specific phoneme representations revealed by electric and magnetic brain responses

    Risto Näätänen;Anne Lehtokoski;Mietta Lennes;Marie Cheour

  • Neural Mechanisms of Involuntary Attention to Acoustic Novelty and Change

    Carles Escera;Kimmo Alho;István Winkler;Risto Näätänen

  • Auditory frequency discrimination and event-related potentials

    M Sams;P Paavilainen;Kimmo Alho;R Naatanen

  • Cerebral generators of mismatch negativity (MMN) and its magnetic counterpart (MMNm) elicited by sound changes.

    Kimmo Alho

  • Selective attention enhances the auditory 40-Hz transient response in humans

    H. T. Tiitinen;J. Sinkkonen;K. Reinikainen;K. Alho

  • Involuntary attention and distractibility as evaluated with event-related brain potentials.

    Carles Escera;Kimmo Alho;Erich Schröger;István Winkler Winkler

  • Development of language-specific phoneme representations in the infant brain.

    Marie Cheour;Rita Ceponiene;Anne Lehtokoski;Aavo Luuk

  • Separate time behaviors of the temporal and frontal mismatch negativity sources.

    T. Rinne;K. Alho;R.J. Ilmoniemi;J. Virtanen;J. Virtanen

  • Attention and mismatch negativity

    R Näätänen;P Paavilainen;H Tiitinen;D Jiang

  • Responses of the primary auditory cortex to pitch changes in a sequence of tone pips: neuromagnetic recordings in man.

    Riitta Hari;Matti Hämäläinen;R. Ilmoniemi;E. Kaukoranta

  • Intermodal selective attention. II. Effects of attentional load on processing of auditory and visual stimuli in central space.

    Kimmo Alho;David L. Woods;Alain Algazi;Risto Näätänen

  • Do event-related potentials reveal the mechanism of the auditory sensory memory in the human brain?

    Risto Näätänen;Petri Paavilainen;Kimmo Alho;Kalevi Reinikainen

  • Mismatch negativity--a unique measure of sensory processing in audition.

    Risto Näätänen;Kimmo Alho

  • Right hemisphere dominance of different mismatch negativities

    Petri Paavilainen;Kimmo Alho;Kalevi Reinikainen;Mikko Sams

  • Lesions of frontal cortex diminish the auditory mismatch negativity.

    K. Alho;David L Woods;A. Algazi;R. T. Knight

  • Attentional modulation of human auditory cortex.

    Christopher I Petkov;Xiaojian Kang;Kimmo Alho;Olivier Bertrand

  • Processing of novel sounds and frequency changes in the human auditory cortex: Magnetoencephalographic recordings

    Kimmo Alho;István Winkler;István Winkler;Carles Escera;Minna Huotilainen;Minna Huotilainen

  • Event-related brain potential of human newborns to pitch change of an acoustic stimulus☆

    Kimmo Alho;K Sainio;Nina Kristiina Sajaniemi;K Reinikainen

  • Memory traces for words as revealed by the mismatch negativity.

    Friedemann Pulvermüller;Teija Kujala;Yury Shtyrov;Jaana Simola

Frequent Co-Authors

Risto Näätänen
Risto Näätänen University of Tartu
K. Reinikainen
K. Reinikainen University of Helsinki
Mikko Sams
Mikko Sams Aalto University
Teemu Rinne
Teemu Rinne University of Helsinki
Risto J. Ilmoniemi
Risto J. Ilmoniemi Aalto University
Petri Paavilainen
Petri Paavilainen University of Helsinki
Teija Kujala
Teija Kujala University of Helsinki
Mari Tervaniemi
Mari Tervaniemi University of Helsinki
Carles Escera
Carles Escera University of Barcelona
Minna Huotilainen
Minna Huotilainen University of Helsinki

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