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Neuroscience
Finland
2026

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Neuroscience

D-Index
90
Citations
26143
World Ranking
1123
National Ranking
8

Mikko Sams publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

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

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38 publications 887+

This scientist: 367 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 887 publications or more.

Mikko Sams D-index placement in Neuroscience in 2026

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

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30 D-Index 163+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 163 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Finland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Finland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Mikko Sams is affiliated with Aalto University in Finland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology as key subfields of study.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics within neuroscience and psychology, including:

  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Their research contributions have appeared frequently in several publication venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • NeuroImage
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Design Science
  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Mikko Sams include:

  • "Movies and narratives as naturalistic stimuli in neuroimaging," 2020, NeuroImage
  • "Auditory representation of learned sound sequences in motor regions of the macaque brain," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Classification of emotion categories based on functional connectivity patterns of the human brain," 2021, NeuroImage
  • "Social pleasures of music," 2021, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • "Bodily maps of musical sensations across cultures," 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Mikko Sams frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Iiro P. Jääskeläinen
  • Lauri Nummenmaa
  • Enrico Glerean
  • Heini Saarimäki
  • Vesa Putkinen

Best Publications

  • Auditory frequency discrimination and event-related potentials

    M Sams;P Paavilainen;Kimmo Alho;R Naatanen

  • Musicians have enhanced subcortical auditory and audiovisual processing of speech and music

    Gabriella Musacchia;Mikko Sams;Erika Skoe;Nina Kraus

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

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

  • Seeing speech: visual information from lip movements modifies activity in the human auditory cortex

    Mikko Sams;Reijo Aulanko;Matti Hämäläinen;Riitta Hari

  • Functional Organization of the Human First and Second Somatosensory Cortices: a Neuromagnetic Study

    Riitta Hari;J. Karhu;M. Hämäläinen;J. Knuutila

  • 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

  • Large-scale brain networks emerge from dynamic processing of musical timbre, key and rhythm.

    Vinoo Alluri;Petri Toiviainen;Iiro P. Jääskeläinen;Enrico Glerean

  • Discrete Neural Signatures of Basic Emotions

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

  • The human auditory sensory memory trace persists about 10 sec: Neuromagnetic evidence

    Mikko Sams;Riitta Hari;Josi Rif;Jukka Knuutila

  • Dynamics of brain activation during picture naming

    R. Salmelin;R. Hari;O. V. Lounasmaa;M. Sams

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

    Risto Näätänen;Petri Paavilainen;Kimmo Alho;Kalevi Reinikainen

  • Task-modulated what and where pathways in human auditory cortex

    Jyrki Ahveninen;Iiro P. Jääskeläinen;Iiro P. Jääskeläinen;Tommi Raij;Giorgio Bonmassar

  • Right hemisphere dominance of different mismatch negativities

    Petri Paavilainen;Kimmo Alho;Kalevi Reinikainen;Mikko Sams

  • Primary auditory cortex activation by visual speech: an fMRI study at 3 T.

    Johanna Pekkola;Ville Ojanen;Taina Autti;Iiro P Jääskeläinen

  • 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

  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Phase Synchronization as a Measure of Dynamic Functional Connectivity

    Enrico Glerean;Juha Salmi;Juha M. Lahnakoski;Iiro P. Jääskeläinen

  • Face-selective processing in human extrastriate cortex around 120 ms after stimulus onset revealed by magneto- and electroencephalography

    Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen;Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen;Jaakko M Palva;Mikko Sams;Jari K Hietanen

  • Functional MRI of the vocalization-processing network in the macaque brain

    Michael Ortiz-Rios;Michael Ortiz-Rios;Paweł Kuśmierek;Iain DeWitt;Denis Archakov;Denis Archakov

  • Deviant Auditory Stimuli Activate Human Left and Right Auditory Cortex Differently

    Sari Levänen;Antti Ahonen;Riitta Hari;Linda McEvoy

  • Factors influencing audiovisual fission and fusion illusions

    Tobias S. Andersen;Kaisa Tiippana;Mikko Sams

Frequent Co-Authors

Iiro P. Jääskeläinen
Iiro P. Jääskeläinen Aalto University
Riitta Hari
Riitta Hari Aalto University
Risto Näätänen
Risto Näätänen University of Tartu
Lauri Nummenmaa
Lauri Nummenmaa Turku University Hospital
Kimmo Alho
Kimmo Alho University of Helsinki
Matti Hämäläinen
Matti Hämäläinen Harvard Medical School
Petri Paavilainen
Petri Paavilainen University of Helsinki
K. Reinikainen
K. Reinikainen University of Helsinki
Jyrki Ahveninen
Jyrki Ahveninen Harvard University
Josef P. Rauschecker
Josef P. Rauschecker Georgetown University Medical Center

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István Winkler

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Publications: 102

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Kimmo Alho

University of Helsinki

Publications: 99

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Publications: 90

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Publications: 86

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Publications: 68

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Publications: 66

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Publications: 63

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Publications: 61

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