Publications
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Peer-reviewed publications and book chapters
Saarimäki H, Saaristo V, Kylliäinen A. (2026) Sosiaaliset ja emotionaaliset videot lasten tunnereaktioiden ja sosiaalisen havaitsemisen tutkimuksessa. Kasvun tuki -aikakauslehti. (Accepted for publication.)
Vierikko E, Saarimäki H, Rantanen K. (2026) Relationships between executive functioning and self-concept in children referred for neuropsychological group rehabilitation and typically developing children. Journal or Neuropsychology. http://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.70029
Konopkina K, Hirvaskoski H, Hietanen JK, Saarimäki H. (2025) Multicomponent approach reveals differences in affective responses among children and adolescents. Scientific Reports 15.1:10179. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319974
Saarimäki H, Nummenmaa L, Volynets S, Santavirta S, Aksiuto A, Sams M, Jääskeläinen IP, Lahnakoski JM. (2025) Cerebral topographies of perceived and felt emotions. Imaging Neuroscience 3:imag_a_00517. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00517
Saarimäki H, Karlsson L, Vuoriainen E. (2025) Mitä tapahtuu, kun ihminen ei tule nähdyksi? In Junttila N, Salovuori E (eds.) Miksi ihminen tarvitsee toisia? Laumavietti ihmisen ydintarpeena. p. 93–115. Jyväskylä: Santalahti-kustannus.
Zhai M, Saarimäki H, Hietanen JK. (2025) The perception of eye contact is associated with men’s need to belong, self-esteem, and loneliness. PloS one, 20:e0319974. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0319974
Ranta K, Saarimäki H, Gummerus J, Virtanen J, Peltomäki S, Kontu E. (2024) Psychological interventions for parents of children with intellectual disabilities to enhance child behavioral outcomes or parental well-being: A systematic review, content analysis and effects. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities. https://doi.org/10.1177/174462952413028.
Rinne P, Lahnakoski JM, Saarimäki H, Tavast M, Sams M, Henriksson L. (2024) Six types of loves differentially recruit reward and social cognition brain areas. Cerebral Cortex 34:8. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae331
Keles U, Kliemann D, Byrge L, Saarimäki H, Paul LK, Kennedy DP, Adolphs R. (2022) Atypical gaze patterns in autistic adults are heterogeneous across but reliable within individuals. Molecular Autism 13:39. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-022-00517-2
Saarimäki H, Glerean E, Smirnov D, Mynttinen H, Jääskeläinen IP, Sams M, Nummenmaa L. (2022) Classification of emotion categories based on functional connectivity patterns of the human brain. NeuroImage 247:118800. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118800
Saarimäki H. (2021) Naturalistic stimuli in affective neuroimaging: a review. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 15:318. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.675068
Nummenmaa L, Saarimäki H. (2021) Tunteelliset aivot. In Carlson S., Hari R. (eds.) Aivoaakkoset. p. 184–200. Espoo: Aalto ARTS Books.
Volynets S, Smirnov D, Saarimäki H, Nummenmaa L. (2020) Statistical pattern recognition reveals shared neural signatures for displaying and recognizing specific facial expressions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 15:803-813. https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.15.873737
Smirnov D, Saarimäki H, Glerean E, Hari R, Sams M, Nummenmaa L (2019) Emotions amplify speaker-listener neural alignment. Human Brain Mapping 40:4777-4788. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24736
Nummenmaa L, Saarimäki H (2019) Emotions as discrete patterns of systemic activity. Neuroscience Letters 693:3-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2017.07.012
Saarimäki H. (2019) Tunteiden luokittelu aivojen aktivaatiosta ja konnektiviteetista. Lectio Praecursoria. Psykologia, 54:356–362.
Gotsopoulos A, Saarimäki H, Jääskeläinen IP, Sams M, Nummenmaa J, Lampinen J (2018) Voxelwise intensity normalization improves reliability of importance maps in multivariate pattern analysis. NeuroImage 181:44-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.06.076
Saarimäki H, Ejtehadian LF, Glerean E, Jääskeläinen IP, Vuilleumier P, Sams M, Nummenmaa L (2018) Distributed affective space represents multiple emotion categories across the brain. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 13:471-482. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsy018
Alakörkkö T, Saarimäki H, Glerean E, Saramäki J, Korhonen O. Effects of spatial smoothing on functional brain networks (2017) European Journal of Neuroscience 46:2471-2480. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.13717
Korhonen O, Saarimäki H, Glerean E, Sams M, Saramäki J (2017) Consistency of regions of interest as nodes of functional brain networks measured by fMRI. Network Neuroscience 1:254-274. https://doi.org/10.1162/NETN_a_00013
Saarimäki H. (2017) Emootioiden vaikutus puheen ymmärtämiseen. In Tarvainen, S., Loukusa, S., Hautala, T. & Saalasti, S. (eds.) Yhteinen ymmärrys - havainnoinnista tulkintaan. Helsinki: Puheen ja kielen tutkimuksen yhdistyksen julkaisuja 49.
Saarimäki H, Gotsopoulos A, Jääskeläinen IP, Lampinen J, Vuilleumier P, Hari R, Sams M, Nummenmaa L. Discrete neural signatures of basic emotions (2016) Cerebral Cortex 26:2563-2573. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhv086
Parra MA, Saarimäki H, Bastin ME, Londoño A, Pettit L, Lopera F, Della Sala S, Abrahams S (2015) Visual short-term memory binding is associated with frontal white matter integrity in familial Alzheimer’s disease. Brain 138:1355-1369. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awv048
Nummenmaa L, Saarimäki H, Glerean E, Gotsopoulos A, Jääskeläinen IP, Hari R, Sams M (2014) Emotional speech synchronizes brain across listeners and engages large-scale dynamic brain networks. NeuroImage 102:498-509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.07.063