World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
67
Citations
14029
World Ranking
2911
National Ranking
18

Psychology

D-Index
67
Citations
14029
World Ranking
2625
National Ranking
25

Overview

Teija Kujala is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and specializes in research primarily within the domains of psychology and neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, statistics and probability, experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's research focuses on a range of core topics such as reading and literacy development, neuroscience and music perception, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, language development and disorders, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, hearing loss and rehabilitation, and phonetics and phonology research.

Recent scholarly contributions include papers published in recognized journals, highlighting diverse areas of their expertise. Notable recent papers are:

  • Prerequisites of language acquisition in the newborn brain, 2023, Trends in Neurosciences
  • Structural white matter connectometry of reading and dyslexia, 2021, NeuroImage
  • Atypical MEG inter-subject correlation during listening to continuous natural speech in dyslexia, 2020, NeuroImage
  • Infancy and early childhood maturation of neural auditory change detection and its associations to familial dyslexia risk, 2022, Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Poor neural and perceptual phoneme discrimination during acoustic variation in dyslexia, 2020, Scientific Reports

Teija Kujala frequently collaborates with a network of researchers including Paula Virtala, Anja Thiede, Eino Partanen, István Winkler, and Marja Laasonen. The volume of collaboration with these colleagues illustrates an active engagement within interdisciplinary research teams.

The researcher's work is often disseminated through a selection of journals that publish multiple studies from this author. Frequent venues include Clinical Neurophysiology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, NeuroImage, and Scientific Reports.

Best Publications

  • The mismatch negativity in cognitive and clinical neuroscience: theoretical and methodological considerations.

    Teija Kujala;Mari Tervaniemi;Erich Schröger

  • Auditory processing that leads to conscious perception: A unique window to central auditory processing opened by the mismatch negativity and related responses

    Risto Näätänen;Teija Kujala;István Winkler;István Winkler;István Winkler

  • The mismatch negativity (MMN) - A unique window to disturbed central auditory processing in ageing and different clinical conditions

    R. Näätänen;R. Näätänen;R. Näätänen;T. Kujala;C. Escera;T. Baldeweg;T. Baldeweg

  • Brain responses reveal the learning of foreign language phonemes.

    Istvańn Winkler;Teija Kujala;Hannu Tiitinen;Päivi Sivonen

  • Plastic neural changes and reading improvement caused by audiovisual training in reading-impaired children

    T. Kujala;K. Karma;R. Ceponiene;S. Belitz

  • The discrimination of and orienting to speech and non-speech sounds in children with autism.

    Tuulia Lepistö;Teija Kujala;Raija Vanhala;Paavo Alku

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

    Friedemann Pulvermüller;Teija Kujala;Yury Shtyrov;Jaana Simola

  • Learning-induced neural plasticity of speech processing before birth

    Eino Partanen;Teija Kujala;Risto Näätänen;Risto Näätänen;Risto Näätänen;Auli Liitola

  • Prenatal music exposure induces long-term neural effects.

    Eino Partanen;Teija Kujala;Mari Tervaniemi;Mari Tervaniemi;Minna Huotilainen;Minna Huotilainen;Minna Huotilainen

  • Cross-modal reorganization of human cortical functions.

    Teija Kujala;Kimmo Alho;Kimmo Alho;Risto Näätänen

  • Mismatch negativity indicates vowel discrimination in newborns

    M Cheourluhtanen;Kimmo Alho;Teija Kujala;K Sainio

  • Basic auditory dysfunction in dyslexia as demonstrated by brain activity measurements

    Teija Kujala;Katja Myllyviita;Mari Tervaniemi;Kimmo Alho

  • Visual cortex activation in blind humans during sound discrimination

    Teija Kujala;Minna Huotilainen;Janne Sinkkonen;Antti I. Ahonen

  • The mismatch negativity: an index of cognitive decline in neuropsychiatric and neurological diseases and in ageing.

    Risto Näätänen;Risto Näätänen;Risto Näätänen;Teija Kujala;Kairi Kreegipuu;Synnöve Carlson;Synnöve Carlson;Synnöve Carlson

  • Electrophysiological evidence for cross-modal plasticity in humans with early- and late-onset blindness

    Kujala T;Alho K;Huotilainen M;Ilmoniemi Rj

  • Auditory and somatosensory event-related brain potentials in early blind humans

    T. Kujala;K. Alho;J. Kekoni;H. Hämäläinen

  • Discrimination of speech and of complex nonspeech sounds of different temporal structure in the left and right cerebral hemispheres.

    Yury Shtyrov;Teija Kujala;Satu Palva;Risto J. Ilmoniemi

  • Diagnostic subgroups of developmental dyslexia have different deficits in neural processing of tones and phonemes

    Thomas Lachmann;Stefan Berti;Teija Kujala;Erich Schröger

  • Background acoustic noise and the hemispheric lateralization of speech processing in the human brain: magnetic mismatch negativity study.

    Yury Shtyrov;Teija Kujala;Jyrki Ahveninen;Mari Tervaniemi

  • Auditory perception and attention as reflected by the brain event-related potentials in children with Asperger syndrome.

    T. Lepistö;S. Silokallio;T. Nieminen-von Wendt;P. Alku

Frequent Co-Authors

Risto Näätänen
Risto Näätänen University of Tartu
Minna Huotilainen
Minna Huotilainen University of Helsinki
Mari Tervaniemi
Mari Tervaniemi University of Helsinki
Yury Shtyrov
Yury Shtyrov Aarhus University
Kimmo Alho
Kimmo Alho University of Helsinki
István Winkler
István Winkler Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Risto J. Ilmoniemi
Risto J. Ilmoniemi Aalto University
Eero Pekkonen
Eero Pekkonen University of Helsinki
Synnöve Carlson
Synnöve Carlson Aalto University
Elyse Sussman
Elyse Sussman Albert Einstein College of Medicine

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Related Online Degrees & Career Pathways

Pursuing a psychology degree in the USA opens up a variety of online programs and career pathways, especially in counseling and mental health fields. Many students consider becoming Licensed Professional Counselors (LPCs), a role that requires meeting specific educational and licensure standards unique to each state.

The process to become an LPC involves completing accredited coursework, supervised clinical experience, and passing state exams. For example, students interested in the Southwest can review Oklahoma licensed professional counselor requirements to understand eligibility. If you’re focused on the Pacific Northwest, it's crucial to understand the lpc licensure requirements in Oregon.

Those looking at careers in the Northeast should examine the Pennsylvania licensed professional counselor requirements and Rhode Island lpc licensure requirements. Each state may have different prerequisites for supervised hours, exam types, and continuing education.

Exploring these paths can help you tailor your online degree to meet specific state requirements and prepare for a wide range of roles in counseling and mental health support.

Best Scientists Citing Teija Kujala

Trending Scientists