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Lauri Nummenmaa publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lauri Nummenmaa sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 213 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Lauri Nummenmaa D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Lauri Nummenmaa sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Lauri Nummenmaa is affiliated with Turku University Hospital in Finland and specializes in neuroscience, medicine, and psychology. Their research encompasses cognitive neuroscience, physiology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, social psychology, and clinical psychology as primary subfields of study.

The scientist's work focuses on a range of topics within brain function and metabolism, including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception

Publications by Lauri Nummenmaa appear frequently in several venues, with substantial contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • NeuroImage
  • European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
  • Cerebral Cortex
  • Diabetes Care

Recent papers highlight the scope of their research:

  • "Interindividual variability and lateralization of μ-opioid receptors in the human brain," 2020, NeuroImage
  • "Lowered endogenous mu-opioid receptor availability in subclinical depression and anxiety," 2020, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "Mapping Lesion-Related Epilepsy to a Human Brain Network," 2023, JAMA Neurology
  • "Magia: Robust Automated Image Processing and Kinetic Modeling Toolbox for PET Neuroinformatics," 2020, Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
  • "Decoding Music-Evoked Emotions in the Auditory and Motor Cortex," 2020, Cerebral Cortex

Frequent collaborators include Pirjo Nuutila, Jussi Hirvonen, Lihua Sun, Vesa Putkinen, and Severi Santavirta. These coauthors have worked extensively with Lauri Nummenmaa on various research topics, reflecting a collaborative research environment.

Best Publications

  • Bodily maps of emotions

    Lauri Nummenmaa;Enrico Glerean;Riitta Hari;Jari K. Hietanen

  • Emotions promote social interaction by synchronizing brain activity across individuals.

    Lauri Nummenmaa;Enrico Glerean;Mikko Viinikainen;Iiro P. Jääskeläinen

  • Eye movement assessment of selective attentional capture by emotional pictures.

    Lauri Nummenmaa;Jukka Hyönä;Manuel G. Calvo

  • Detection of emotional faces: salient physical features guide effective visual search.

    Manuel G. Calvo;Lauri Nummenmaa

  • Is emotional contagion special? An fMRI study on neural systems for affective and cognitive empathy.

    Lauri Nummenmaa;Jussi Hirvonen;Riitta Parkkola;Jari K. Hietanen

  • Neural mechanisms of social attention

    Lauri Nummenmaa;Andrew J. Calder

  • Discrete Neural Signatures of Basic Emotions

    Heini Saarimäki;Athanasios Gotsopoulos;Iiro P. Jääskeläinen;Jouko Lampinen

  • Topography of social touching depends on emotional bonds between humans

    Juulia T. Suvilehto;Enrico Glerean;Robin I. M. Dunbar;Riitta Hari

  • Naturalistic FMRI mapping reveals superior temporal sulcus as the hub for the distributed brain network for social perception.

    Juha Marko Lahnakoski;Enrico Glerean;Juha Salmi;Iiro P Jääskeläinen

  • Perceptual and affective mechanisms in facial expression recognition: An integrative review

    Manuel G. Calvo;Lauri Nummenmaa

  • Dorsal striatum and its limbic connectivity mediate abnormal anticipatory reward processing in obesity.

    Lauri Nummenmaa;Jussi Hirvonen;Jarna C. Hannukainen;Heidi Immonen

  • Obesity Is Associated with Decreased μ-Opioid But Unaltered Dopamine D2 Receptor Availability in the Brain

    Henry K. Karlsson;Lauri Tuominen;Jetro J. Tuulari;Jussi Hirvonen

  • Social Laughter Triggers Endogenous Opioid Release in Humans

    Sandra Manninen;Lauri Tuominen;Robin I. Dunbar;Tomi Karjalainen

  • Maps of subjective feelings

    Lauri Nummenmaa;Riitta Hari;Jari K. Hietanen;Enrico Glerean

  • Synchronous brain activity across individuals underlies shared psychological perspectives

    Juha M. Lahnakoski;Enrico Glerean;Iiro P. Jääskeläinen;Jukka Hyönä

  • Automatic attention orienting by social and symbolic cues activates different neural networks: An fMRI study

    Jari K. Hietanen;Lauri Nummenmaa;Mikko J. Nyman;Riitta Parkkola

  • Inducing affective states with success-failure manipulations: a meta-analysis.

    Lauri Nummenmaa;Pekka Niemi

  • Social touch modulates endogenous μ-opioid system activity in humans.

    Lauri Nummenmaa;Lauri Tuominen;Robin Dunbar;Jussi Hirvonen

  • Opioid system and human emotions

    Lauri Nummenmaa;Lauri Tuominen

  • Emotional speech synchronizes brains across listeners and engages large-scale dynamic brain networks

    Lauri Nummenmaa;Heini Saarimäki;Enrico Glerean;Athanasios Gotsopoulos

Frequent Co-Authors

Pirjo Nuutila
Pirjo Nuutila Turku University Hospital
Jussi Hirvonen
Jussi Hirvonen Turku University Hospital
Riitta Hari
Riitta Hari Aalto University
Mikko Sams
Mikko Sams Aalto University
Iiro P. Jääskeläinen
Iiro P. Jääskeläinen Aalto University
Manuel G. Calvo
Manuel G. Calvo University of La Laguna
Jari K. Hietanen
Jari K. Hietanen Tampere University
Jarmo Hietala
Jarmo Hietala Turku University Hospital
Valtteri Kaasinen
Valtteri Kaasinen Turku University Hospital
Jukka Hyönä
Jukka Hyönä University of Turku

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