Examples of PhD theses at CBRU

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• Katri Saarikivi – Augmented maturation of executive functions in musically trained children and adolescents – 2022
• Sini-Tuuli Siponkoski – Music therapy in the cognitive and neural rehabilitation of traumatic brain injury – 2022
• Valtteri Wikström – Intersubjectivity and cooperation in synchronous computer-mediated interaction – 2022
• Anja Thiede – Functional and structural correlates of dyslexia and reading-relevant skills in the brain: Evidence from newborns and adults – 2020
• Vera Leo – Effects of vocal music on verbal learning and long-term recovery after stroke – 2020
• Tanja Linnavalli – Effects of musical experience on children’s language and brain development – 2019
• Riikka Lindström – Neural and perceptual processing of emotional speech prosody in typically developed children and in children with autism spectrum disorder – 2019
• Hanna Poikonen – Dance on Cortex - ERPs and Phase Synchrony in Dancers and Musicians during a Contemporary Dance Piece – 2018
• Aleksi Sihvonen – Neural basis of acquired amusia and its recovery (University of Turku) – 2018
• Tiziana Quarto – Individual differences in emotion processing – 2018
• Suzanne Hut – Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Language Processing and Control in Early Bilinguals and Late Language Learners – 2018
• Lauri Ahonen – Quantifying cognition: Applications for ubiquitous data – 2018
• Outi Reinvall – Neurocognitive functioning and psychiatric symptoms in children and adolescents with higher functioning autism spectrum disorders – 2018
• Marina Kliuchko – Noise sensitivity in the function and structure of the brain – 2017
• Caitlin Dawson – Effects of linguistic and musical expertise on early auditory processing: Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence – 2017
• Lilli Kimppa – Rapid formation and activation of lexical memory traces in human neocortex – 2017
• Soila Kuuluvainen – Cortical processing of sublexical speech and nonspeech sounds in children and adults – 2016
• Paula Virtala – The neural basis of Western music chord categorisations effects of development and music expertise – 2015
• Ritva Torppa – Pitch-related auditory skills in children with cochlear implants: The role of auditory working memory, attention and music – 2015
• Maria Mittag – Interactions of the processing of letters and speech sounds as reflected by event-related brain potentials – 2014
• Vesa Putkinen – Musical activities and the development of neural sound discrimination – 2014
• Petteri Simola – Sleep problems and their implications from preschool to school age – 2014
• Miia Seppänen – Auditory perceptual learning in musicians and non-musicians: Event-related potential studies on rapid plasticity – 2013
• Eva Istok – Cognitive and neural determinants of music appreciation and aesthetics – 2013
• Eino Partanen – The neural basis of speech sound discrimination from infancy to adulthood – 2013
• Riikka Lovio – Cortical multi-attribute auditory discrimination deficits and their amelioration in dyslexia – 2013
• Alina Leminen – Neurocognitive processing of inflected and derived words – 2012
• Veerle Simoens – Stress and music performance anxiety – 2012
• Satu Pakarinen – Towards Optimal Testing of Auditory Memory: Methodological development of recording of the mismatch negativity (MMN) of the auditory event-related potential (ERP) – 2011
• Teppo Särkämö – Music in the recovering brain – 2011
• Riia Milovanov – The Connectivity of Musical Aptitude and Foreign Language Learning Skills: Neural and Behavioural Evidence (University of Turku) – 2009
• Tuomas Teinonen – Language learning in infancy – 2009
• Milena Korostenskaja – Neurochemical regulation of auditory information processing studied with EEG/MEG: application to schizophrenia – 2008
• Daria Osipova – Oscillatory brain activity in memory disorders – 2007
• Tuulia Lepistö – Cortical processing of speech and non-speech sounds in autism and Asperger syndrome – 2008
• Elvira Brattico – Cortical processing of musical pitch as reflected by behavioural and electrophysiological evidence – 2006
• Titia van Zuijen – Sensory auditory processing and intuitive sound detection: an investigation of musical experts and nonexperts – 2006
• Nikolai Novitski – Pitch discrimination in optimal and suboptimal acoustic environments: electroencephalographic, magnetoencephalographic, and behavioral evidence – 2006
• Sari Ylinen – Cortical representations for phonological quantity – 2006
• Titta-Maria Ilvonen – Sound discrimination in left-hemisphere stroke patients with aphasia as reflected by mismatch negativity (MMN) and behavioral indices – 2006
• Anu Kujala – Cortical processing of speech and non-speech sounds in adults and newborns – 2006
• Valentina Gumenyuk – Electrophysiological and behavioral indices of distractibility in school-age children – 2005
• Anna Shestakova – 'Sensory intelligence' in the auditory cortex: Brain responses to native and non-native phonetic stimuli – 2004
• Elena Kushnerenko – Maturation of the cortical auditory event-related brain potentials in infancy – 2003
• Teemu Rinne – Human cortical functions in auditory change detection evaluated with multiple brain research methods – 2001
• Jyrki Ahveninen – Electromagnetic Studies of Auditory Processing in Abstinent Alcoholics – 2000

• Yury Shtyrov – New aspects of the cerebral functional asymmetry in speech processing as revealed by auditory cortex evoked magnetic fields – 2000