Aalto Brain Centre

Aalto Brain Centre (ABC) is a thematic center formed by research teams of several departments of the Aalto University School of Science.
ABC aims to stimulate synergy and collaboration in research on systems-level neuroscience, neuroimaging, and neurotechnology, including deep questions of human brain function as well as development of clinical applications, novel instrumentation, and sophisticated data analysis.
Aalto Brain Centre supports networking, international cooperation, training and workshops, researcher mobility and scholarly visits. Extended multidisciplinary coalitions are preferred over single-group projects.
In ABC, resources will be allocated to research creating added value. The criteria include scientific excellence, relevance to neuroscience and neurotechnology, and a credible and committed team. In addition, ABC will allocate the resources to existing and new research projects within Aalto, eliminating bottlenecks from research by, for example, providing bridge funding and augmenting existing funding to guarantee efficient use of imaging resources within Aalto.
ABC will also advance efficient use of the Aalto NeuroImaging infrastructures, participate in teaching, endorse communication between the research teams, as well as reach out to the wider Aalto community and the society.
The presenters in the ABC seminars include researchers from different departments and schools within Aalto as well as visitors. The ABC seminar thus acts as a meeting point for scientists working in the fields of neuroscience and neurotechnology and thus facilitates fortunate strokes of serendipity.
Director and the Executive Board
ABC is lead by Prof. Lauri Parkkonen together with an executive board whose current members are:
- Professor Synnöve Carlson (attention and memory)
- Professor Risto Ilmoniemi (brain imaging and stimulation technologies)
- Professor Samuel Kaski (machine learning for neuroscience)
- Professor Riitta Salmelin (imaging neuroscience)
- Professor Mikko Sams (cognitive neuroscience)
Contact
Lauri Parkkonen, Professor
tel. +358 40 508 9712
[email protected]
Visiting address:
Rakentajanaukio 2 C, room F351
FI-02150 ESPOO, FINLAND
Events

ABC Seminar: Social alignment - advantages and disadvantages
Chris and Uta Frith (University College London) will be exploring the multi-layered phenomenon of "Social Alignment," its advantages, and pitfalls in human interaction.Past ABC Seminars
ABC seminars listed in reverse chronological order (most recent first).
Philippe Ciuciu: Accelerated brain MR Imaging: From shorter data acquisition to faster image reconstruction & Matias Palva: New vistas for brain criticality (18 Nov 2021)
- Nelson Totah: How the brain learns in a complex world (27 Nov 2020)
- Jonathan Levy: Empathy, Brain & Conflict (13 Feb 2020)
- Alec Marantz: Morphemes in the Brain (23 Jan 2020)
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Tommaso Fedele: High frequency oscillations as biomarkers for epilepsy surgery in intracranial EEG, but not only! (11 Dec 2019)
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Sabine Krumm: Measuring the functionality of the perirhinal cortex for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (28 Nov 2019)
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Stéphane Deny: Using AI to study visual representations in the retina (16 Sep 2019)
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Alexander Mathis: AI tools for marker-less behavior tracking and monitoring (16 Sep 2019)
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Stephanie Jones: Human Neocortical Neurosolver: A Neural Modeling Tool to Link Mechanism to Meaning of EEG/MEG Signals (16 May 2019)
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Markus Butz: Scrutinising the Effects of Deep Brain Stimulation using MEG (02 May 2019)
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Joachim Gross: Using MEG to study the dynamics of information processing in the human brain (01 Mar 2019)
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Francis McGlone: A Symphony in C (16 Nov 2018)
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Eran Halperin: Collective Emotions in Intractable Conflicts (10 Oct 2018)
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Miguel Nicolelis: Linking Brains to Machines: From Basic Science to Neurological Neurorehabilitation (21 Sep 2018)
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Karl Friston: Active Inference in Artificial Curiosity (21 Sep 2018)
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Christoph M. Michel: Mapping of brain network dynamics at rest with EEG microstates (03 Sep 2018)
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Christopher R. Madan: Cortical Cartography: Characterising the peaks and valleys of the cerebral cortex (04 Jun 2018)
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Shihab Shamma: Cortical mechanisms underlying perception in complex auditory scenes (17 May 2018)
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Kenneth Hugdahl: Hearing voices that do not exist: On the neurobiology of auditory hallucinations (05 Mar 2018)
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Guillaume Dumas: Laddering the scales: from Brains in Social Interaction to Genes in Human Evolution (01 Feb 2018)
- Gregor Thut: Modulating brain oscillations to drive brain functions by EEG/MEG-guided transcranial brain stimulation (20 Sep 2017)
- Biyu Jade He: Initial-state-dependent, robust, transient neural dynamics encode conscious visual perception (20 Sep 2017)
- Petteri Pietikäinen: The visual representation of mental illness from the art of face reading to modern brain imaging: Three vignettes (22 May 2017)
- Roy Mukamel: Neural circuits mediating transfer of motor knowledge (24 Apr 2017)
- Olli Gröhn: Experimental MRI of injury induced brain damage and plasticity – development of new methodology and biomarker search (27 Mar 2017)
- James Kilner: Rethinking the functional role of beta oscillations in the motor system (23 Mar 2017)
- Marc Cavazza: Brain-Computer Interfaces to Interactive Narratives (07 Nov 2016)
- Joshua Singer: Linking Properties of a Synapse to the Output of a Neural Circuit in Retina (24 Oct 2016)
- Radoslaw Cichy:Dynamics of visual cognition: A spatio-temporally resolved and algorithmically explicit account (17 Oct 2016)
- Michael Breakspear: Brain waves: Mechanisms of cortical metastability (14 Sep 2016)
- Olaf Sporns: Dynamics in the Connectome: Neuronal Communication and Functional Connectivity (14 Sep 2016)
- Asaf Bachrach: Every breath you take, every move you make – Quantifying the spectator-performer space during live contemporary dance performance (25 Apr 2016)
- Kimmo Alho: Human brain activity during selective and divided attention (11 Apr 2016)
- Enrico Glerean: Long-term preservation of brain imaging data and metadata - report from a pilot project (14 Mar 2016)
- Minna Huotilainen: Decades of development in auditory cognitive neuroscience (29 Feb 2016)
- Mari Tervaniemi: Brain, Learning, and Music - Life-span approach (15 Feb 2016)
- Mikko Nyrhinen: Aalto TMS: Status Update (01 Feb 2016)
- Veli-Matti Saarinen: Introduction to Aalto Behavioral Laboratory (01 Feb 2016)
- Riitta Hari: Reacting, acting, and interacting: the excruciating complexity of human brain function in real-life social settings (18 Jan 2016)
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Janne Kauttonen & Jelena Rosic: Brain mechanisms underlying cue-based connection of memories during natural viewing of movie Memento (30 Nov 2015)
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Tiina Parviainen & Jarmo Hämäläinen: Jyväskylä Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research (16 Nov 2015)
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Iiro Jääskeläinen: Neural mechanisms supporting evaluation of others’ errors in real-life like conditions (02 Nov 2015)
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Jonathan Levy: The Human Brain Selectively Enhances or Suppresses Neural Oscillations to Promote Cognitive and Social Processes (19 Oct 2015)
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Elina Pihko: In search of activity from SII (05 Oct 2015)
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Mikko Sams: Homophilic Brains? (07 Sep 2015)
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Risto Ilmoniemi: Emerging technologies and methodologies for MEG, EEG, MRI, TMS, and TES (18 May 2015)
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Riitta Salmelin: Imaging of language, language of imaging (04 May 2015)
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Tapio Lokki: Music, concert hall acoustics and psychophysics (20 Apr 2015)
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Petri Ala-Laurila: Vision at its ultimate limits: optimal strategies of neural computation (23 Mar 2015)
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Mark Johnson: Embodied cognition: how we make and experience meaning through our sensory, motor, and affective processes (09 Mar 2015)
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Lauri Parkkonen: From measurements of single neurons to consciousness (23 Feb 2015)
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Ari Koskelainen: Gain control of photoreceptor signaling in mammalian photoreceptor cells (09 Feb 2015)
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Veikko Jousmäki: My toy story - MEG compatible gadgets (26 Jan 2015)
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Andreas Bartels: Parietal function in ego-motion, space and Gestalt perception (15 Jan 2015)
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Fa-Hsuan Lin: Fast functional magnetic resonance imaging: technical developments and applications (12 Jan 2015)
- Lauri Nummenmaa: Emotions as social glue (08 Dec 2014)
- Kristoffer H. Madsen: Modelling functional connectivity networks in fMRI data (04 Dec 2014)
- Synnöve Carlson: Imaging the young brain – top-down control of sensory information processing (24 Nov 2014)
- Jari Saramäki: Networks from Brain to Society (10 Nov 2014)
- Iiro Jääskeläinen: Going from simplified to naturalistic tasks in human fMRI and MEG/EEG studies: possibilities and challenge (06 Oct 2014)
- Matti Hämäläinen: The Quest for the Philosopher's Stone of Human Brain Imaging (22 Sep 2014)