News from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research (CIBR)

In the science article, Suvi Saarikallio, Piia Astikainen, Miriam Nokia, and Eero Haapala explain emotions, music, or exercise enhance learning. How are heart beat and breathing rhythm connected to memory?

The Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation supports the fields of science, art and social activities. The University of Jyväskylä received a total of €570 500 in grants, of which €100 000 was awarded to Eero Haapala and his team for their research project

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The Research Council of Finland’s Scientific Council for Social Sciences and Humanities has selected 6 researchers of the University of Jyväskylä to receive Academy Research Fellowship funding and 9 projects to receive Academy Project Funding.

The Rector of the University of Jyväskylä, Jari Ojala, has appointed Jan Kujala as Professor of Brain Development from 1 February 2025.

The Rector Jari Ojala has appointed Miriam Nokia as a Professor of Psychology. The special field of the professorship is the basic mechanisms underlying behavioural change, in particular those of the central and autonomic nervous systems.

Rector Jari Ojala has appointed Piia Astikainen as Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience from 1.12.2024.

There are many ongoing studies of the principles of human communication at the University of Jyväskylä neuroscience laboratories.

a research project seeks Finnish speaking adults to test learning of Chinese. Participants receive feedback on their brain activity and development in their accuracy for phonetic distinctions during the training.sound discriminatiovn, among other things..

The Rector of the University of Jyväskylä Jari Ojala has invited Harri Piitulainen (PhD, docent) to the professorship in motor neuroscience at the JYU Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences.

MA (Sci.) Yixue Lou’s dissertation explores depression-related behavioral and brain responses to the processing of negative self-knowledge.