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Overview

Pekka Niemi is affiliated with the University of Turku in Finland. Their research spans multiple disciplines, with a strong focus on medicine, social sciences, and psychology. Within these fields, their work often intersects with education and developmental studies, including subfields such as education, developmental and educational psychology, radiology, nuclear medicine, imaging, cognitive neuroscience, and psychiatry and mental health.

Their recent publications demonstrate a particular interest in reading and literacy development, as well as radiology and educational practices. Some notable papers include:

  • "Long-term effects of the home literacy environment on reading development: Familial risk for dyslexia as a moderator" (2021) published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • "Kindergarten pre-reading skills predict Grade 9 reading comprehension (PISA Reading) but fail to explain gender difference" (2020) published in Reading and Writing
  • "Longitudinal Effects of the Home Learning Environment and Parental Difficulties on Reading and Math Development Across Grades 1-9" (2020) published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Deep learning accurately classifies elbow joint effusion in adult and pediatric radiographs" (2022) published in Scientific Reports
  • "Longitudinal associations between poor reading skills, bullying and victimization across the transition from elementary to middle school" (2021) published in PLoS ONE

Frequent collaborators in Niemi's research include Minna Torppa, Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen, Anna-Maija Poikkeus, Jarno T. Huhtanen, and Mikko Nyman. These partnerships reflect sustained collaborative efforts across various topics connected to literacy development and radiology.

The primary publication venues where Niemi's work appears are diverse but show a concentration in certain journals. These include Reading and Writing, Diagnostics, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology, and Scientific Reports.

The main topics addressed by Pekka Niemi cover a range of issues including:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Radiology practices and education
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
  • Radiation Dose and Imaging
  • Education and Technology Integration

Their interdisciplinary approach bridges gaps between educational psychology and medical imaging, highlighting dynamics in both cognitive and clinical aspects of development. This is evident through their research on home learning environments, reading development, and the application of deep learning in radiographic classification.

Best Publications

  • Foreperiod and simple reaction time.

    Pekka Niemi;Risto Näätänen

  • Transition to formal schooling: Do transition practices matter for academic performance?☆

    Annarilla Ahtola;Gintautas Silinskas;Pirjo-Liisa Poikonen;Marita Kontoniemi

  • Development of the letter identity span in reading: Evidence from the eye movement moving window paradigm

    Tuomo Häikiö;Raymond Bertram;Jukka Hyönä;Pekka Niemi

  • Development of reading skills among preschool and primary school pupils

    Ulla Leppänen;Pekka Niemi;Kaisa Aunola;Jari-Erik Nurmi

  • Event-related brain potentials and the perception of a phonetic continuum ☆

    Olli Aaltonen;Pekka Niemi;Timo Nyrke;Marja Tuhkanen

  • Letter knowledge predicts Grade 4 reading fluency and reading comprehension

    Ulla Leppänen;Kaisa Aunola;Pekka Niemi;Jari-Erik Nurmi

  • The Role of Inference Making and Other Language Skills in the Development of Narrative Listening Comprehension in 4–6-Year-Old Children

    Janne Lepola;Julie Lynch;Eero Laakkonen;Maarit Silvén

  • Development of and Relationship Between Phonological and Motivational Processes and Naming Speed in Predicting Word Recognition in Grade 1

    Janne Lepola;Elisa Poskiparta;Eero Laakkonen;Pekka Niemi

  • Developmental dynamics of achievement strategies, reading performance, and parental beliefs

    Kaisa Aunola;Jari-Erik Nurmi;Pekka Niemi;Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen

  • The role of phonological memory, word recognition, and comprehension skills in reading development: from preschool to grade 2

    Mia Dufva;Pekka Niemi;Marinus J. M. Voeten

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

    Lauri Nummenmaa;Pekka Niemi

  • Reading long words embedded in sentences: informativeness of word halves affects eye movements.

    Jukka Hyönä;Pekka Niemi;Geoffrey Underwood

  • Leisure Reading (But Not Any Kind) and Reading Comprehension Support Each Other—A Longitudinal Study Across Grades 1 and 9

    Minna Torppa;Pekka Niemi;Kati Vasalampi;Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen;Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen

  • Motivational-emotional vulnerability and difficulties in learning to read and spell.

    Elisa Poskiparta;Pekka Niemi;Pekka Niemi;Janne Lepola;Annarilla Ahtola

  • The frequency of parents' reading-related activities at home and children's reading skills during kindergarten and Grade 1☆

    Gintautas Silinskas;Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen;Asko Tolvanen;Pekka Niemi

  • Eye movements during repeated reading of a text.

    Jukka Hyönä;Pekka Niemi

  • Cortical Differences in Tonal versus Vowel Processing as Revealed by an ERP Component Called Mismatch Negativity (MMN)

    Olli Aaltonen;Jyrki Tuomainen;M. Laine;P. Niemi

  • Cohort Profile: Steps to the Healthy Development and Well-being of Children (the STEPS Study)

    Hanna Lagström;Päivi Rautava;Anne Kaljonen;Hannele Räihä

  • Do maternal interaction and early language predict phonological awareness in 3- to 4-year-olds?

    Maarit Silvén;Maarit Silvén;Pekka Niemi;Pekka Niemi;Marinus J.M Voeten

  • The double deficit hypothesis in the transparent Finnish orthography: a longitudinal study from kindergarten to Grade 2

    Minna Torppa;Rauno Parrila;Pekka Niemi;Marja Kristiina Lerkkanen

  • Who Benefits From Training in Linguistic Awareness in the First Grade, and What Components Show Training Effects?

    Elisa Poskiparta;Pekka Niemi;Marja Vauras

Frequent Co-Authors

Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen
Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen University of Jyväskylä
Jari-Erik Nurmi
Jari-Erik Nurmi University of Jyväskylä
Elisa Poskiparta
Elisa Poskiparta University of Turku
Anna-Maija Poikkeus
Anna-Maija Poikkeus University of Jyväskylä
Pekka Santtila
Pekka Santtila New York University Shanghai
Jukka Hyönä
Jukka Hyönä University of Turku
Noona Kiuru
Noona Kiuru University of Jyväskylä
Timo Ahonen
Timo Ahonen University of Jyväskylä
Kaisa Aunola
Kaisa Aunola University of Jyväskylä
Kenneth Eklund
Kenneth Eklund University of Jyväskylä

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