Kimmo Alho
Erik Allardt Fellow, SCAS.
Professor of Psychology,
University of Helsinki
Kimmo Alho received his Ph.D. in Psychology at the University
of Helsinki in 1987, after which he worked
there as a Fellow of the
Academy of Finland. He became Professor of Psychology at the
University of
Tampere in 1999 and at the University of Helsinki
in 2000. Between September 2012 and July 2014, he
worked as a
Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He also
holds the title of Docent of
Cognitive Neuroscience at
the University of Turku and has been several times a Visiting
Fellow at the
University of California, Davis, and Visiting Research
Professor at the University of Barcelona.
Between
1999 and 2006,
he was Head of the Finnish Graduate School of Psychology and
has since 2006 been
Director
of the Nordic–Baltic Doctoral Network
in Psychology. He is a member of the Finnish Academy of
Science
and Letters and Academia Europaea.
Alho’s research on human brain functions related to perception,
memory and attention has resulted in over 150
articles in
peer-reviewed scientific journals. In his research, he has applied
electro- and magnetoencephalography,
positron emission
tomography, functional magnetic resonance imaging as well as
psychophysical methods. In
addition, he recently meta-analyzed
results from over a hundred auditory brain imaging studies (Alho
et al.,
‘Stimulus-dependent Activations and Attention-related
Modulations in the Auditory Cortex: A Meta-analysis of
fMRI
Studies’, Hearing Research, 2014, 307: 29–41). In his empirical
research, he has mostly studied healthy
adults but also neurological
patients, healthy children and children with attention deficits. His
current research
at the University of Helsinki and Aalto University,
supported by grants from the Academy of Finland, focuses
on
brain activity and cognitive performance during dual tasking and
distraction in adults and in teenagers regarded
as digital natives.
At SCAS, he will work on a review and meta-analysis of brain
imaging studies on social
perception and cognition.
This information is accurate as of the academic year 2014-15.
