Heini Saarimäki

Heini Saarimäki

Academy of Finland postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University. Visiting researcher at California Institute of Technology. Emotions, social cognition, and brains.

Publications

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

Preprints

Saarimäki H, Glerean E, Smirnov D, Mynttinen H, Jääskeläinen IP, Sams M, Nummenmaa L. Classification of emotions based on functional connectivity patterns of the human brain. [bioarxiv]

Peer-reviewed publications

Volynets S, Smirnov D, Saarimäki H, Nummenmaa L. Statistical pattern recognition reveals shared neural signatures for displaying and recognizing specific facial expressions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 15:803-813.

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.

Nummenmaa L, Saarimäki H (2019) Emotions as discrete patterns of systemic activity. Neuroscience Letters 693:3-8.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.