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Petri Paavilainen

Petri Paavilainen

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Neuroscience

D-Index
47
Citations
12889
World Ranking
6317
National Ranking
49

Overview

Petri Paavilainen is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and conducts research primarily within the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology. Their work focuses on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, with particular attention to topics such as Neuroscience and Music Perception, Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation, Multisensory Perception and Integration, Pain Management and Placebo Effect, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, as well as Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies.

Paavilainen's recent publications include studies published in recognized scientific venues. These publications are:

  • "Benefits of choir singing on complex auditory encoding in the aging brain: An ERP study" (2022), published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • "No evidence for theta power as a marker of hypnotic state in highly hypnotizable subjects" (2021), published in Heliyon
  • "Effects of attention on the processing of physical and abstract auditory regularities: An exploratory MMN study" (2024), published in Heliyon

Research collaborations feature a number of frequent co-authors including Tommi Makkonen, Emmi Pentikäinen, Lilli Kimppa, Mikko Putkonen, and Anni Pitkäniemi.

The primary venues where Paavilainen has published are:

  • Heliyon (2 publications)
  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (1 publication)

The scientist's research topics indicate a focus on the neural mechanisms underpinning auditory processing and perception, with cross-disciplinary interests that encompass music perception, sensory integration, and psychological factors influencing pain and brain activity. This multidisciplinary approach integrates neurophysiological methods such as event-related potentials (ERP) and electroencephalography (EEG) to explore brain function related to auditory and cognitive phenomena.

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

  • ‘Primitive intelligence’ in the auditory cortex

    Risto Näätänen;Mari Tervaniemi;Elyse Sussman;Petri Paavilainen

  • Auditory frequency discrimination and event-related potentials

    M Sams;P Paavilainen;Kimmo Alho;R Naatanen

  • Attention and mismatch negativity

    R Näätänen;P Paavilainen;H Tiitinen;D Jiang

  • Development of a memory trace for a complex sound in the human brain

    Risto Näätänen;Erich Schröger;Sirel Karakas;Mari Tervaniemi

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

    Risto Näätänen;Petri Paavilainen;Kimmo Alho;Kalevi Reinikainen

  • Right hemisphere dominance of different mismatch negativities

    Petri Paavilainen;Kimmo Alho;Kalevi Reinikainen;Mikko Sams

  • Do event-related potentials to infrequent decrements in duration of auditory stimuli demonstrate a memory trace in man?

    Risto Näätänen;Petri Paavilainen;Kalevi Reinikainen

  • Representation of abstract attributes of auditory stimuli in the human brain.

    Jukka Saarinen;Petri Paavilainen;Erich Schöger;Mari Tervaniemi

  • Mismatch negativity to change in spatial location of an auditory stimulus

    Petri Paavilainen;Marja-Liisa Karlsson;Kalevi Reinikainen;Risto Näätänen

  • The mismatch-negativity (MMN) component of the auditory event-related potential to violations of abstract regularities: a review.

    Petri Paavilainen

  • The mismatch negativity to intensity changes in an auditory stimulus sequence.

    Risto Näätänen;Petri Paavilainen;Kimmo Alho;Kalevi Reinikainen

  • Frequency and location specificity of the human vertex N1 wave.

    Risto Näätänen;Mikko Sams;Kimmo Alho;Petri Paavilainen

  • Separability of different negative components of the event-related potential associated with auditory stimulus processing.

    K. Alho;P. Paavilainen;K. Reinikainen;Mikko Sams

  • Preattentive extraction of abstract feature conjunctions from auditory stimulation as reflected by the mismatch negativity (MMN)

    Petri Paavilainen;Jaana Simola;Maria Jaramillo;Risto Näätänen;Risto Näätänen

  • Temporal integration of auditory information in sensory memory as reflected by the mismatch negativity

    Mari Tervaniemi;Jukka Saarinen;Petri Paavilainen;N. Danilova

  • Event-related potentials to repetition and change of auditory stimuli.

    Walter Ritter;Petri Paavilainen;Juha Lavikainen;Kalevi Reinikainen

  • Event-related brain potentials reflecting processing of relevant and irrelevant stimuli during selective listening.

    K. Alho;Mikko Sams;P. Paavilainen;K. Reinikainen

  • Neural plasticity in processing of sound location by the early blind: an event-related potential study.

    Teija Kujala;Kimmo Alho;Petri Paavilainen;Heikki Summala

  • Mismatch negativity to slight pitch changes outside strong attentional focus

    Petri Paavilainen;Hannu Tiitinen;Kimmo Alho;Risto Näätänen

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Risto Näätänen
Risto Näätänen University of Tartu
Kimmo Alho
Kimmo Alho University of Helsinki
Mikko Sams
Mikko Sams Aalto University
K. Reinikainen
K. Reinikainen University of Helsinki
István Winkler
István Winkler Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Mari Tervaniemi
Mari Tervaniemi University of Helsinki
Teija Kujala
Teija Kujala University of Helsinki
Erich Schröger
Erich Schröger Leipzig University
Heikki Summala
Heikki Summala University of Helsinki
Hannu Tiitinen
Hannu Tiitinen Aalto University

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