In press
Sinisalo, H., Hahn, A. C., Jones, B. C., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., & Peltola, M. J. (in press). Impact of parity and salivary hormonal levels on motivation towards infant emotions. Emotion.
Veistola, S., Bos, P. A., Pahnke, R., Lischke, A. & Peltola, M. J. (in press). Men’s empathy towards children’s emotions across the transition to fatherhood. Developmental Psychology.
2024
Chen, T., Helminen, T. M., Linnunsalo, S., & Hietanen, J. K. (2024). Autonomic and facial electromyographic responses to watching eyes. I-Perception, 15. https://doi.org/10.1177/20416695231226059 Open Access
Hietanen, J. (2024). Sosiaalinen neurotiede nyt. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, 2024, 24–43. https://journal.fi/aasf/article/view/141174/93042 Open Access
Linnunsalo, S., Yrttiaho, S., Turati, C., Quadrelli, E., Peltola, M. J., & Hietanen, J. K. (2024). Infants’ psychophysiological responses to eye contact with a human and with a humanoid robot. Biological Psychology, 192: 108858. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2024.108858 Open Access
Putnam, S. P., Sehic, E., French, B., Gartstein, M.A., Lira Luttges, B. and 489 Members of the Global Temperament Project (2024). The Global Temperament Project: Parent-reported temperament in infants, toddlers and children from 59 nations. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001732
Zhai, M., & Hietanen J. K. (2024). Threat priming diminishes the gaze cueing effect. Cognition and Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2337133
2023
Chen, T., & Hietanen, J. K. (2023). Emotionally positive self-directed speech widens the cone of gaze. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001304
Linnunsalo, S., Küster, D., Yrttiaho, S., Peltola, M. J., & Hietanen, J. K. (2023). Psychophysiological responses to eye contact with a humanoid robot: Impact of perceived intentionality. Neuropsychologia, 89, 108668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108668 Open Access
Palosaari, E., Herne, K., Lappalainen, O., & Hietanen, J. K. (2023). Effects of fear on donations to climate change mitigation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 104, 104422. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-04915-y Open Access
Sun, W., Chen, T., & Hietanen, J. K. (2023). Skin conductance, facial EMG, and heart rate responses in multi-person gaze interactions. Biological Psychology, 176: 108465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108465 Open Access
2022
Hietanen, J. O., Syrjämäki, A. H., & Hietanen, J. K. (2022). Perception of eye contact, self-referential thinking and age. Consciousness and Cognition, 106, 103435. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-04915-y Open Access
Dindar, K., Loukusa, S., Helminen, T. M., Mäkinen, L., Siipo, A., Laukka, S., Rantanen, A., Mattila, M-L., Hurtig, T., & Ebeling, H. (2022). Social-pragmatic inferencing, visual social attention and physiological reactivity to complex social scenes in autistic young adults. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 52, 73-88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-021-04915-y Open Access
Forslund, T.,
Herne, K., Hietanen, J. K., Lappalainen, O., & Palosaari, E. (2022). The influence of role awareness, empathy induction and trait empathy on dictator game giving. PLoS ONE 17(3): e0262196. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262196 Open Access
Kiilavuori, H., Peltola, M. J., Sariola, V., & Hietanen, J. K. (2022). Being watched by a humanoid robot and a human: Effects on affect-related psychophysiological responses. Biological Psychology, 175, 108451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108451 Open Access
Laamanen, P., Kiuru, N., Flykt, M., Vänskä, M., Hietanen, J. K., Peltola, M. J., Kurkela, E., Poikkeus, P., Tiitinen, A., & Lindblom, J. (2022). How do early family systems predict emotion recognition in middle childhood? Social Development, 31, 196-211. http://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12526 Open Access
Sinisalo, H., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., & Peltola, M. J. (2022). Hormonal and behavioral responses to an infant simulator in women with and without children. Developmental Psychobiology, 64, e22321. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22321 Open Access
Vuoriainen, E., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., Huffmeijer, R., van IJzendoorn, M. H., & Peltola, M. J. (2022). Processing children’s faces in the parental brain: A meta-analysis of ERP studies. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 136, 104604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104604 Open Access
Yrttiaho, S., Kylliäinen, A., Parviainen, T., & Peltola, M. J. (2022). Neural specialization to human faces at the age of 7 months. Scientific Reports, 12471. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16691-5 Open Access
2021
Akechi, H., & Hietanen J. K. (2021). Considering victims’ minds in the evaluation of harmful agents’ moral standing. Social Cognition, 39, 489–503.
Biro, S., Peltola, M. J., Huffmeijer, R., Alink, L. R. A., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., & van IJzendoorn, M. H. (2021). Frontal EEG asymmetry in infants observing separation and comforting events: The role of infants’ attachment relationship. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 48:100941. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100941 Open Access
Hietanen J. K., & Peltola, M. J. (2021). The eye contact smile: The effects of sending and receiving a direct gaze. Visual Cognition, 29, 446-462. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2021.1915904 Open Access
Kiilavuori, H., Sariola, V., Peltola, M. J., & Hietanen, J. K. (2021). Making eye contact with a robot: Psychophysiological responses to eye contact with a human and with a humanoid robot. Biological Psychology, 158, 107989. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.107989 Open Access
Mäkelä, T. E., Kylliäinen, A., Saarenpää-Heikkilä, O., Paavonen, E. J., Paunio, T., Leppänen, J. M., & Peltola, M. J. (2021). Signaled night awakening and its association with social information processing and socio-emotional development across the first two years. Sleep, 44, zsab179. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsab179 Open Access
Rantanen, M., Hautala, J., Loberg, O., Nuorva, J., Hietanen, J. K., Nummenmaa, L., & Astikainen, P. (2021). Attentional bias towards interpersonal aggression in depression – an eye movement study. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 62, 639–647. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/sjop.12735 Open Access
Saarimäki, H. (2021). Naturalistic stimuli in affective neuroimaging: A review. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15:675068. 10.3389/fnhum.2021.675068 Open Access
2020
Forslund, T., Peltola, M. J., & Brocki, K. C. (2020). Disorganized attachment representations, externalizing behavior problems, and socioemotional competences in early school-age. Attachment & Human Development, 22, 448-473. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2019.1664603 Open Access
Hietanen, J. O., Peltola, M. J., & Hietanen, J. K. (2020). Psychophysiological responses to eye contact in a live interaction and in video call. Psychophysiology, 57, e13587. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13587 Open Access
Kivinummi, A., Naithani, G., Tammela, O., Virtanen, T., Kurkela, E., Alhainen, M., Niehaus, D. J. H., Lachman, A., Leppänen, J. M., & Peltola, M. J. (2020) Associations between neonatal cry acoustics and visual attention during the first year. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:577510. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577510 Open Access
Kiviruusu, O., Pietikäinen, J. T., Kylliäinen, A., Pölkki, P., Saarenpää-Heikkilä, O., Marttunen, M., Paunio, T., & Paavonen, E. J. (2020). Trajectories of mothers’ and fathers’ depressive symptoms from pregnancy to 24 months postpartum. Journal of Affective Disorders, 260, 629-637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.09.038 Open Access
Mäkelä, T. E., Peltola, M. J., Saarenpää-Heikkilä, O., Himanen, S.-L., Paunio, T., Paavonen, E. J., & Kylliäinen, A. (2020). Night awakening and its association with executive functioning across the first two years of life. Child Development, 91, e937-e951. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13326 Fulltext
Peltola, M. J., van IJzendoorn, M. H., & Yrttiaho, S. (2020). Attachment security and cortical responses to fearful faces in infants. Attachment & Human Development, 22, 174-188. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2018.1530684 Fulltext
Pietikäinen, J. T., Kiviruusu, O., Kylliäinen, A., Pölkki, P., Saarenpää‐Heikkilä, O., Paunio, T., & Paavonen, E. J. (2020). Maternal and paternal depressive symptoms and children’s emotional problems at the age of 2 and 5 years: A longitudinal study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 61, 195-204. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13126 Fulltext
Puhakka, I. J. A., & Peltola, M. J. (2020). Salivary cortisol reactivity to psychological stressors in infancy: A meta-analysis. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 115, 104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2020.104603 Fulltext
Syrjämäki, A. H., & Hietanen, J. K. (2020). Social inclusion, but not exclusion, delays attentional disengagement from direct gaze. Psychological Research, 84, 1126-1138. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1108-2 Open Access
Syrjämäki, A. H., Isokoski, P., Surakka, V., Pasanen, T. P., & Hietanen, J. K. (2020). Eye contact in virtual reality – A psychophysiological study. Computers in Human Behavior, 112, 106454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106454
Syrjämäki, A. H., Lyyra, P., & Hietanen, J. K. (2020). I don’t need your attention: ostracism Fulltextcan narrow the cone of gaze. Psychological Research, 84, 99-110. doi: 10.1007/s00426-018-0993-8 Fulltext
Volynets, S., Glerean, E., Hietanen, J. K., Hari, R., & Nummenmaa, L. (2020). Bodily maps of emotions are culturally universal. Emotion, 20, 1127–1136. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000624
2019
Hietanen, J. K., Kylliäinen, A., & Peltola, M. J. (2019). The effect of being watched on facial EMG and autonomic activity in response to another individual’s facial expressions. Scientific Reports, 14759. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51368-6 Open Access
Huhdanpää, H., Morales-Muñoz, I., Aronen, E. T., Pölkki, P., Saarenpää-Heikkilä, O., Paunio, T., Kylliäinen, A., & Paavonen, E. J. (2019). Sleep difficulties in infancy are associated with inattentive and hyperactive symptoms at the age of 5 years: A longitudinal study. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 40, 432-440. https://doi.org/10.1097/DBP.0000000000000684 Open Access
Lauttia, J., Helminen, T. M., Leppänen, J. M., Yrttiaho, S., Eriksson, K., Hietanen, J. K., & Kylliäinen, A. (2019). Atypical pattern of frontal EEG asymmetry for direct gaze in young children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49, 3592-3601. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-04062-5 Open Access
Morales-Muñoz, I., Partonen, T., Saarenpää-Heikkilä, O., Kylliäinen, A., Pölkki, P., Porkka-Heiskanen, T., Paunio, T., & Paavonen, E. J. (2019). The role of parental circadian preference in the onset of sleep difficulties in early childhood. Sleep Medicine, 54, 223-230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2018.10.039 Fulltext
Paavonen, E. J., Morales-Muñoz, I., Pölkki, P., Paunio, T., Porkka-Heiskanen, T., Kylliäinen, A., Partonen, T., & Saarenpää-Heikkilä, O. (2019). Development of sleep–wake rhythms during the first year of age. Journal of Sleep Research, e12918. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.12918 Fulltext
Puura, K., Leppänen, J. M., Salmelin, R., Mäntymaa, M., Luoma, I., Latva, R., Peltola, M. J., Lehtimäki, T., & Tamminen, T. (2019). Maternal and infant characteristics connected to shared pleasure in dyadic interaction. Infant Mental Health Journal, 40, 459–478. https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.21786 Fulltext
Syrjämäki, A. H. & Hietanen, J. K. (2019). The effects of social exclusion on processing of social information – A cognitive psychology perspective. British Journal of Social Psychology, 58, 730–748. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12299 Fulltext
2018
Hietanen, J. K. (2018). Affective eye contact: An integrative review. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:1587. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01587 Open Access
Hietanen, J. K., Helminen, T. M., Kiilavuori, H., Kylliäinen, A., Lehtonen, H., & Peltola, M. J. (2018). Your attention makes me smile: Direct gaze elicits affiliative facial expressions. Biological Psychology, 132, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.11.001 Fulltext
Hietanen, J. O., Syrjämäki, A. H., Zilliacus, P. K., & Hietanen, J. K. (2018). Eye contact reduces lying. Consciousness and Cognition, 66, 65–73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2018.10.006 Fulltext
Lyyra, P., Myllyneva, A., & Hietanen, J. K. (2018). Mentalizing eye contact with a face on a video: Gaze direction does not influence autonomic arousal. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 59, 360-367. doi:10.1111/sjop.12452 Fulltext
Morales-Muñoz, I., Saarenpää-Heikkilä, O., Kylliäinen, A., Pölkki, P., Porkka-Heiskanen, T., Paunio, T., & Paavonen, E. J. (2018). The effects of maternal risk factors during pregnancy on the onset of sleep difficulties in infants at 3 months old. Journal of Sleep Research, e12696. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsr.12696 Open Access
Mäkelä, T. E., Peltola, M. J., Nieminen, P., Paavonen, E. J., Saarenpää-Heikkilä, O., Paunio, T., & Kylliäinen, A. (2018). Night awakening in infancy: Developmental stability and longitudinal associations with psychomotor development. Developmental Psychology, 54, 1208–1218. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000503 Fulltext
Naithani, G., Kivinummi, J., Virtanen, T., Tammela, O., Peltola, M. J., & Leppänen, J. M. (2018). Automatic segmentation of infant cry signals using hidden Markov models. EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2018:1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13636-018-0124-x Open Access
Nummenmaa, L., Hari, R., Hietanen, J. K., & Glerean, E. (2018). Maps of subjective feelings. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115,. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1807390115 Open Access
Peltola, M. J., Strathearn, L., & Puura, K. (2018). Oxytocin promotes face-sensitive neural responses to infant and adult faces in mothers. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 91, 261–270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.02.012 Open Access
Peltola, M. J., Yrttiaho, S., & Leppänen, J. M. (2018). Infants’ attention bias to faces as an early marker of social development. Developmental Science, 21(6):e12687. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12687 Fulltext
2017
Chen, T., Helminen, T. M., & Hietanen, J. K. (2017). Affect in the eyes: Explicit and implicit evaluations. Cognition and Emotion, 31(6), 1070–1082. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1188059
Chen, T., Nummenmaa, L., & Hietanen, J. K. (2017). Eye contact judgment is influenced by perceivers’ social anxiety but not by their affective state. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:373. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00373 Open Access
Chen, T., Peltola, M. J., Dunn, R., Pajunen, S. M., & Hietanen, J. K. (2017). Modulation of the eyeblink and cardiac startle reflexes by genuine eye contact. Psychophysiology, 54, 1872–1881. doi:10.1111/psyp.12975 Fulltext
Helminen, T. M., Leppänen, J. M., Eriksson, K., Luoma, A., Hietanen, J. K., & Kylliäinen, A. (2017). Atypical physiological orienting to direct gaze in low-functioning children with autism spectrum disorder. Autism Research, 10(5), 810–820. doi:10.1002/aur.1738
Hietanen, J. O., & Hietanen, J. K. (2017). Genuine eye contact elicits self-referential processing. Consciousness and Cognition, 51, 100–115. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2017.01.019 Fulltext
Kantojärvi, K., Liuhanen, J., Saarenpää-Heikkilä, O., Satomaa, A.-L., Kylliäinen, A., Pölkki P, et al. (2017) Variants in calcium voltage-gated channel subunit Alpha1 C-gene (CACNA1C) are associated with sleep latency in infants. PLoS ONE 12(8): e0180652. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180652 Open Access
Lindblom, J., Peltola, M. J., Vänskä, M., Hietanen, J. K., Laakso, A., Tiitinen, A., Tulppala, M., & Punamäki, R.-L. (2017). Early family system types predict children’s emotional attention biases at school age. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 41(2), 245–256. doi:10.1177/0165025415620856 Fulltext
Lyyra, P., Astikainen, P., & Hietanen, J. K. (2017). Look at them and they will notice you: Distractor-independent attentional capture by direct gaze in change blindness. Visual Cognition, 26(1), 25–36. doi:10.1080/13506285.2017.1370052 Open Access
Lyyra, P., Wirth, J. H., & Hietanen, J. K. (2017). Are you looking my way? Ostracism widens the cone of gaze. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(8), 1713–1721. doi:10.1080/17470218.2016.1204327
Paavonen, E. J., Saarenpää-Heikkilä, O., Pölkki, P., Kylliäinen, A., Porkka-Heiskanen, T., & Paunio, T. (2017). Maternal and paternal sleep during pregnancy in the Child-sleep birth cohort. Sleep Medicine, 29, 47-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleep.2016.09.011
Peltola, M. J., Mäkelä, T., Paavonen, E. J., Vierikko, E., Saarenpää-Heikkilä, O., Paunio, T., Hietanen, J. K., & Kylliäinen, A. (2017). Respiratory sinus arrhythmia moderates the impact of maternal prenatal anxiety on infant negative affectivity. Developmental Psychobiology, 59(2), 209–216. doi:10.1002/dev.21483 Fulltext
Syrjämäki, A. H., Lyyra, P., Peltola, M. J., & Hietanen, J., K. (2017). When a look is not enough: No evidence for direct gaze facilitating recovery after social exclusion. Social Cognition, 35(6), 601–618. doi:10.1521/soco.2017.35.6.601 Supplementary Materials Fulltext
In Finnish
Syrjämäki, A. H., Lyyra, P., & Hietanen, J. K. (2017). Yksin jääminen satuttaa – Katsaus kokeelliseen ostrakismitutkimukseen [It hurts to be left alone – A review of experimental ostracism research]. Psykologia, 52, 376–390.
2016
Chen, T., Peltola, M. J., Ranta, L. J., & Hietanen, J. K. (2016). Affective priming by eye gaze stimuli: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10:619. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00619 Open Access
Conty, L., George, N., & Hietanen, J. K. (2016). Watching Eyes effects: When others meet the self. Consciousness and Cognition, 45, 184–197. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2016.08.016 Open Access
Fletcher-Watson, S., Apicella, F., Auyeung, B., Beranova, S., Bonnet-Brilhault, F., Canal-Bedia, R., … Kylliainen, A., … & Farroni, T. (2016). Attitudes of the autism community to early autism research. Autism: International Journal of Research and Practice, 21(1), 61–74. doi:10.1177/1362361315626577
Hautala, J., Loberg, O., Hietanen, J. K., Nummenmaa, L., & Astikainen, P. (2016). Effects of conversation content on viewing dyadic conversations. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 9(7), 1–12. doi:10.16910/jemr.9.7.5 Open Access
Hietanen, J. K., Glerean, E., Hari, R., & Nummenmaa, L. (2016). Bodily maps of emotions across child development. Developmental Science, 19(6), 1111–1118. doi:10.1111/desc.1238
Hietanen, J. K., Myllyneva, A., Helminen, T. M., & Lyyra, P. (2016). The effects of genuine eye contact on visuospatial and selective attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(9),1102–1106. doi:10.1037/xge0000199
Kaartinen, M., Puura, K., Himanen, S.-L., Nevalainen, J., & Hietanen, J. K. (2016). Autonomic arousal response habituation to social stimuli among children with ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46(12), 3688–3699. doi:10.1007/s10803-016-2908-0
Myllyneva, A., & Hietanen, J. K. (2016). The dual nature of eye contact: to see and to be seen. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(7), 1089–1095. doi:10.1093/scan/nsv075 Open Access
Nummenmaa, L., Suvilehto, J. T., Glerean, E., Santtila, P., & Hietanen, J. K (2016). Topography of human erogenous zones. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 45(5) 1207–1216. doi:10.1007/s10508-016-0745-z
In Finnish
Hietanen, J. (2016). Katsekontakti ja mielten kohtaaminen. Teoksessa: M. Ylikangas (toim.) Mielen salat. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, ss. 27–38.
Hietanen, J., & Nummenmaa, L. (2016). Lastenkin tunteilla on kehonkartat. Psykologi-lehti, 4, 18–19.
2015
Alho, J., Salminen, N., Sams, M., Hietanen, J. K., & Nummenmaa, L. (2015). Facilitated early cortical processing of nude human bodies. Biological Psychology, 109, 103–110. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.04.010
Ashwin, C., Hietanen, J. K., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2015). Atypical integration of social cues for orienting to gaze direction in adults with autism. Molecular Autism, 6(1), 5. doi:10.1186/2040-2392-6-5 Open Access
Bukowski, H., Hietanen, J. K., & Samson, D. (2015). From gaze cueing to perspective taking: Revisiting the claim that we automatically compute where or what other people are looking at. Visual Cognition, 23(8),1020–1042. doi:10.1080/13506285.2015.1132804 Open Access
Helminen, T. M., Pasanen, T. P., & Hietanen, J. K. (2015). Learning under your gaze: the mediating role of affective arousal between perceived direct gaze and memory performance. Psychological Research, 80(2), 159–171. doi:10.1007/s00426-015-0649-x
Salomone, E., Beranová, Š., Bonnet-Brilhault, F., Briciet Lauritsen, M., Budisteanu, M., Buitelaar. J.K., Canal-Bedia, R., Felhosi, G., Fletcher-Watson, S., Fuentes, J., Gallagher, L., Garcia Primo, P., Gliga, F., Gomot, M., Green, J., Heimann, M., Loa Jónsdóttir, S., Kaale, A., Kawa, R., Kylliainen, A., Lemcke, S., Markovska-Simoska, S., Marschik, P., McConachie, H., Moilanen, I., Muratori, F., Narzisi, A., Noterdaeme, M., Oliveira, G., Oosterling, I., Pijl, M., Pop-Jordanova, N., Poustka, F., Roeyers, H., Rogé, B., Sinzig, J., Vicente, A., Warreyn, P. & Charman, T. (2015). Use of early intervention for young children with autism spectrum disorder across Europe. Autism: International Journal of Research and Practice, 20(2), 233–249. doi:10.1177/1362361315577218
Myllyneva, A., & Hietanen, J. K. (2015). There is more to eye contact than meets the eye. Cognition, 134, 100–109. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2014.09.011
Myllyneva, A., Ranta, K., & Hietanen, J. K. (2015). Psychophysiological responses to eye contact in adolescents: with social anxiety disorder. Biological Psychology, 109, 151–158. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.05.005
Peltola, M. J., Forssman, L., Puura, K., van IJzendoorn, M. H., & Leppänen, J. M. (2015). Attention to faces expressing negative emotion at 7 months predicts attachment security at 14 months. Child Development, 86(5), 1321–1332. doi:10.1111/cdev.12380 Open Access
Uono, S., & Hietanen, J. K. (2015). Eye contact perception in the West and East: A cross-cultural study. PLoS ONE, 10(2), e0118094. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0118094 Open Access
Uusberg, H., Allik, J., & Hietanen, J. K. (2015). Eye contact reveals a relationship between Neuroticism and anterior EEG asymmetry. Neuropsychologia, 73, 161–168. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.05.008
2014
Cong, F., Zhou, G., Astikainen, P., Zhao, Q., Wu, Q., Nandi, A. K., Hietanen, J. K., Ristaniemi, T., & Cichocki, A. (2014). Low-rank approximation based nonnegative multi-way array decomposition on event-related potentials. International Journal of Neural Systems, 24(8). doi:10.1142/S012906571440005X Open Access
Forssman, L., Peltola, M. J., Yrttiaho, S., Puura, K., Mononen, N., Lehtimäki, T., & Leppänen, J. M. (2014). Regulatory variant of the TPH2 gene and early life stress are associated with heightened attention to social signals of fear in infants. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 55(7), 793–801. doi:10.1111/jcpp.12181 Open Access
Hietanen, J. K., Kirjavainen, I., & Nummenmaa, L. (2014). Additive effects of affective arousal and top-down attention on the event-related brain responses to human bodies. Biological Psychology, 103, 167–175. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2014.09.003
Kylliäinen, A., Jones, E. J. H., Gomot, M., Warreyn, P. & Falck-Ytter, T. (2014). Practical guidelines for studying young children with autism spectrum disorder in psychophysiological experiments. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 1(4), 373–386. doi:10.1007/s40489-014-0034-5 Open Access
Lyyra, P., Hietanen, J. K., & Astikainen, P. (2014). Anger superiority effect for change detection and change blindness. Consciousness and Cognition, 30, 1–12. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2014.07.013
Lyyra, P., Mäkelä, H., Hietanen, J. K., Astikainen, P. (2014). Implicit binding of facial features during change blindness. PLoS ONE, 9(1): e87682. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0087682 Open Access
Nummenmaa, L., Glerean, E., Hari, R., & Hietanen, J. K. (2014). Bodily maps of emotions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(2), 646–651. doi:10.1073/pnas.1321664111 Open Access
Peltola, M. J., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., Alink, L. R. A., Huffmeijer, R., Biro, S., & van IJzendoorn, M. H. (2014). Resting frontal EEG asymmetry in children: Meta-analyses of the effects of psychosocial risk factors and associations with internalizing and externalizing behavior. Developmental Psychobiology, 56(6), 1377–1389. doi: 10.1002/dev.21223 Fulltext
Peltola, M. J., Yrttiaho, S., Puura, K., Proverbio, A. M., Mononen, N., Lehtimäki, T., & Leppänen, J. M. (2014). Motherhood and oxytocin receptor genetic variation are associated with selective changes in electrocortical responses to infant facial expressions. Emotion, 14(3), 469–477. doi:10.1037/a0035959 Fulltext
2013
Akechi, H., Senju, A., Uibo, H., Kikuchi, Y., Hasegawa, T., & Hietanen, J. K. (2013). Attention to eye contact in the West and East: Autonomic responses and evaluative ratings. PLoS One, 8(3), e59312. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059312 Open Access
Astikainen, P., Cong, F., Ristaniemi, T., & Hietanen, J. K. (2013). Event-related potentials to unattended changes in facial expressions: detection of regularity violations or encoding of emotions? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 557. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00557 Open Access
Cong, F., Phan, A. H., Astikainen, P., Zhao, Q., Wu, Q., Hietanen, J. K., Ristaniemi, T., & Cichocki, A. (2013). Multi-domain feature extraction for event-related potential through nonnegative multi-way array decomposition from low dense array EEG. International Journal of Neural Systems, 23(2), 1350006. doi:10.1142/S0129065713500068
Hietanen, J. K., & Astikainen, P. (2013). N170 response to facial expressions is modulated by the affective congruency between the emotional expression and preceding affective picture. Biological Psychology, 92(2), 114– 124. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.10.005
Peltola, M. J., Hietanen, J. K., Forssman, L., & Leppänen, J. M. (2013). The emergence and stability of the attentional bias to fearful faces in infancy. Infancy, 18(6), 905–926. doi:10.1111/infa.12013 Fulltext
Puura, K., Mäntymaa, M., Leppänen, J. M., Peltola, M. J., Salmelin, R., Luoma, I., Latva, R., & Tamminen, T. (2013). Associations between maternal interaction behavior, maternal perception of infant temperament and infant social withdrawal. Infant Mental Health Journal, 34(6), 586–593. doi:10.1002/imhj.21417
In Finnish
Castrén, M. l., & Kylliäinen, A. (2013). Autistisen käyttäytymisen monitekijäinen tausta. Suomen Lääkärilehti, 8, 569–574.
Kylliäinen, A., & Hietanen, J. K. (2013). Kasvot, katse ja autismi. Suomen Lääkärilehti, 8, 581–586.
2012
Kaartinen, M., Puura, K., Mäkelä, T., Rannisto, M., Lemponen, R., Helminen, M., Salmelin, R., Himanen, S.L., & Hietanen, J. K. (2012). Autonomic arousal to direct gaze correlates with social impairments among children with ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42(9),1917–1927. doi:10.1007/s10803-011-1435-2
Kylliäinen, A., Wallace, S., Leppänen, J. M., Coutanche, M., Cusack, J., Bailey, A. J., & Hietanen, J. K. (2012). Affective-motivational brain responses to direct gaze in children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 53(7), 790–797. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2011.02522.x
Nummenmaa, L., Hietanen, J. K., Santtila, P., & Hyönä, J. (2012). Gender and visibility of sexual cues influence eye movements while viewing faces and bodies. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 41(6),1439–1451. doi:10.1007/s10508-012-9911-0
Pönkänen, L. M., & Hietanen, J. K. (2012). Eye contact with neutral and smiling faces: effects on autonomic responses and frontal EEG asymmetry. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6, article 122. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00122 Open Access
2011
Cong, F., Leppänen, P. H. T., Astikainen, P., Hämäläinen, J., Hietanen, J. K., & Ristaniemi, T. (2011). Dimension reduction: Additional benefit of an optimal filter for independent component analysis to extract event-related potentials, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 201(1), 269–280. doi:10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.07.015
Helminen, T. M., Kaasinen, S. M., & Hietanen, J. K. (2011). Eye contact and arousal: the effects of stimulus duration. Biological Psychology, 88(1), 124–130. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.07.002
Hietanen, J. K., & Nummenmaa, L. (2011). The naked truth: the face and body sensitive N170 response is enhanced for nude bodies. PLoS ONE, 6(11), e24408. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024408 Open Access
Leppänen, J. M., Peltola, M. J., Puura, K., Mäntymaa, M., Mononen, N., & Lehtimäki, T. (2011). Serotonin and early cognitive development: Variation in the tryptophan hydroxylase 2 gene is associated with visual attention in 7-month-old infants. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52(11), 1144–1152. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2011.02391.x
Milders, M., Hietanen, J. K., Leppänen, J. M., & Braun, M. (2011). Detection of emotional faces is modulated by the direction of eye gaze. Emotion, 11(6), 1456–1461. doi:10.1037/a0022901
Nummenmaa, L., Hietanen, J. K., Calvo, M. G., & Hyönä, J. (2011). Food catches the eye but not for everyone: a BMI–contingent attentional bias in rapid detection of nutriments. PLoS ONE, 6(5), e19215. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019215 Open Access
Peltola, M. J., Leppänen, J. M., & Hietanen, J. K. (2011). Enhanced cardiac and attentional responding to fearful faces in 7-month-old infants. Psychophysiology, 48(9), 1291–1298. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01188.x Fulltext
Pönkänen, L. M., Alhoniemi, A., Leppänen, J. M., & Hietanen, J. K. (2011). Does it make a difference if I have an eye contact with you or with your picture? An ERP study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6(4), 486–494. doi:10.1093/scan/nsq068 Open Access
Pönkänen, L. M., Peltola, M. J., & Hietanen, J. K. (2011). The observer observed: Frontal EEG asymmetry and autonomic responses differentiate between another person’s direct and averted gaze when the face is seen live. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 82(2), 180–187. doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2011.08.006 Fulltext
2010
Leppänen, J. M., Peltola, M. J., Mäntymaa, M., Koivuluoma, M., Salminen, A., & Puura, K. (2010). Cardiac and behavioral evidence for emotional influences on attention in 7-month-old infants. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 34(6), 547–553. doi:10.1177/0165025410365804
2009
Astikainen, P., & Hietanen, J. K. (2009). Event-related potentials to task-irrelevant changes in facial expressions. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 5(1), 30. doi:10.1186/1744-9081-5-30 Open Access
Calvo, M. G. & Nummenmaa, L. (2009). Lateralised covert attention in word identification. Laterality, 14(2), 178–195. doi:10.1080/13506280802338848
Leppänen, J. M., & Nelson, C. A. (2009). Tuning the developing brain to social signals of emotions. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 10(1), 37–47. doi:10.1038/nrn2554 Fulltext
Leppänen, J. M., Richmond, J., Moulson, M. C., Vogel-Farley, V.K., Nelson, C.A. (2009). Categorical representation of facial expressions in the infant brain. Infancy, 14(3), 346–362. doi:10.1080/15250000902839393
Nummenmaa, L., & Hietanen, J. K. (2009). How attentional systems process conflicting cues? The superiority of social over symbolic orienting revisited. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35(6), 1738–1754. doi:10.1037/a0016472
Nummenmaa, L., Hyönä, J., & Calvo, M. G. (2009). Emotional scene content drives the saccade generation system reflexively. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35(2), 305–323. doi:10.1037/a0013626
Nummenmaa, L. Hyönä, J., & Hietanen, J. K. (2009). I’ll walk this way: Eyes reveal the direction of locomotion and make passers-by to look and go the other way. Psychological Science, 20(12), 1454–1458. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02464.x
Peltola, M. J., Leppänen, J. M., Mäki, S., & Hietanen, J. K. (2009). Emergence of enhanced attention to fearful faces between 5 and 7 months of age. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 4(2), 134–142. doi:10.1093/scan/nsn046 Open Access
Peltola, M. J., Leppänen, J. M., Vogel-Farley, V. K., Hietanen, J. K., & Nelson, C. A. (2009). Fearful faces but not fearful eyes alone delay attention disengagement in 7-month-old infants. Emotion, 9(4), 560–565. doi:10.1037/a0015806 Fulltext
Schoeman, R., Niehaus, D. J. H., Koen, L, & Leppänen, J. M. (2009). Emotion recognition deficits as a neurocognitive marker of schizophrenia liability. In M. S. Ritsner (Ed.), The Handbook of Neuropsychiatric Biomarkers, Endophenotypes and Genes (pp. 163–176). Springer. Fulltext
2008
Hietanen, J. K., & Leppänen, J. M. (2008). Judgment of other people’s facial expressions of emotions is influenced by their concurrent affective hand movements. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 49(3), 221–230. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9450.2008.00644.x
Hietanen, J. K., Leppänen, J. M., Nummenmaa, L., & Astikainen, P. (2008). Visuospatial attention shifts by gaze and arrow cues: An ERP study. Brain Research, 1215, 123–136. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2008.03.091
Hietanen, J. K., Leppänen, J. M., Peltola, M. J., Linna-aho, K. & Ruuhiala, H. J. (2008). Seeing direct and averted gaze activates the approach-avoidance motivational brain systems. Neuropsychologia, 46(9), 2423–2430. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.02.029
Leppänen, J. M., Hietanen, J. K., & Koskinen, K. (2008). Differential early ERPs to fearful versus neutral facial expressions: a response to the salience of the eyes? Biological Psychology, 78(2), 150–158. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.02.002
Leppänen, J. M., Niehaus, D. J. H., Koen, L., Schoeman, R., & Emsley, R. (2008). Allocation of attention to the eye and mouth region of faces in schizophrenia patients. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 13(6), 505–519. doi:10.1080/13546800802608452
Leppänen, J. M., Niehaus, D. J. H., Du Toit, E., Koen, L., Schoeman, R., & Emsley, R. (2008). Deficits in facial affect recognition in unaffected siblings of Xhosa schizophrenia patients: evidence for a neurocognitive endophenotype. Schizophrenia Research, 99(1), 270–273. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2007.11.003
Nummenmaa, L., Hirvonen, J., Parkkola, R., & Hietanen, J. K. (2008). Is emotional contagion special? An fMRI study on neural systems for affective and cognitive empathy. Neuroimage, 43(3), 571–580. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.08.014
Nummenmaa, L., Peets, K., & Salmivalli, C. (2008). Automatic activation of adolescents’ peer-relational schemas: Evidence from priming with facial identity. Child Development, 79(6), 1659–1675. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2008.01217.x
Peltola, M. J., Leppänen, J. M., Palokangas, T., & Hietanen, J. K. (2008). Fearful faces modulate looking time and attention disengagement in 7-month-old infants. Developmental Science, 11(1), 60–68. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00659.x Fulltext
Pönkänen, L. M., Hietanen, J. K., Peltola, M. J., Kauppinen, P. K., Haapalainen, A., & Leppänen, J. M. (2008). Facing a real person: An ERP study. Neuroreport, 19(4), 497–501. doi:10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f7c4d3
In Finnish
Hietanen, J., Leppänen, J., & Peltola M. (2008). Ilo pinnassa: positiivisten tunteiden ilmeneminen kasvoilla. Teoksessa R.-L. Punamäki, P. Nieminen, & M. Kiviaho (toim.) Mieli ja terveys: ilon ja muutoksen psykologiaa (s. 11– 26). Tampere: Psykologian laitos, Tampereen yliopisto.
2007
Hietanen, J. K., Klemettilä, T., Kettunen, J. E., & Korpela, K. M. (2007). What is a nice smile like that doing in a place like this? Automatic affective responses to environments influence the recognition of facial expressions. Psychological Research, 71(5), 539–552. doi:10.1007/s00426-006-0064-4
Leppänen, J. M., & Hietanen, J. K. (2007). Is there more in a happy face than just a big smile? Visual Cognition, 15(4), 468–490. doi:10.1080/13506280600765333
Leppänen, J. M., Kauppinen, P., Peltola, M. J., & Hietanen, J. K. (2007). Differential electrocortical responses to increasing intensities of fearful and happy emotional expressions. Brain Research, 1166(1), 103–109. doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2007.06.060 Fulltext
Leppänen, J. M., Moulson, M. C., Vogel-Farley, V. K., & Nelson, C. A. (2007). An ERP study of emotional face processing in the adult and infant brain. Child Development, 78(1), 232–245. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.00994.x
In Finnish
Leppänen, J. M. (2007). Depressioon liittyvät emotionaaliset muutokset ja niiden hermostollinen perusta. Duodecim, 123(3), 297–303.
2006
Hietanen, J. K., Nummenmaa, L., Nyman, M. J., Parkkola, R., & Hämäläinen, H. (2006). Automatic attention orienting by social and symbolic cues activates different neural networks: An fMRI study. Neuroimage, 33(1), 406–413. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.06.048
Kylliäinen, A., Braeutigam, S., Hietanen, J. K., Swithenby, S. J., & Bailey, A. J. (2006). Face and gaze processing in normally developing children: A magnetoencephalographic study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 23(3), 801–810. doi:10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04554.x
Kylliäinen, A, Braeutigam, S., Hietanen, J. K., Swithenby, S. J., & Bailey, A. J. (2006). Face- and Gaze-Sensitive Neural Responses in Children with Autism: A Magnetoencephalographic Study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 24(9), 2679–2690. doi:10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.05132.x
Kylliäinen, A., & Hietanen, J. K. (2006). Skin conductance responses to another person’s gaze direction in children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36(4), 517–525. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-006-0091-4
Leppänen, J. M. (2006). Emotional information processing in mood disorders: a review of behavioral and neuroimaging findings. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 19(1), 34–39. doi:10.1097/01.yco.0000191500.46411.00
Leppänen, J.M., & Nelson, C.A. (2006). The development and neural bases of facial emotion recognition. In R.V. Kail (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Vol. 34 (pp. 207–245). San Diego: Academic Press. doi:10.1016/S0065-2407(06)80008-X
Leppänen, J. M., Niehaus, D. J. H., Du Toit, E., Koen, L., Schoeman, R., & Emsley, R. (2006). Emotional face processing deficit in schizophrenia: a replication study in a South African Xhosa Population. Schizophrenia Research, 84(2), 323–330. doi:10.1016/j.schres.2006.02.007
Nummenmaa, L., & Hietanen, J. K. (2006). Gaze distractors influence saccadic curvature: Evidence for the role of the oculomotor system in gaze-cued orienting. Vision Research, 46(21), 3674–3680. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2006.06.004 Open Access
In Finnish
Hietanen, J. K. (2006). Kasvot ja katse sosiaalisessa vuorovaikutuksessa. Teoksessa: H. Hämäläinen, M. Laine, O. Aaltonen, & A. Revonsuo (toim.) Mieli ja aivot: Kognitiivisen neurotieteen oppikirja (s. 406–414). Turku: Kognitiivisen neurotieteen tutkimuskeskus, Turun yliopisto.
Kylliäinen, A. (2006). Autismi sosiaalisen vuorovaikutuksen häiriönä. Teoksessa: H. Hämäläinen, M. Laine, O. Aaltonen, & A. Revonsuo (toim.) Mieli ja aivot: Kognitiivisen neurotieteen oppikirja (s. 415–419). Turku: Kognitiivisen neurotieteen tutkimuskeskus, Turun yliopisto.
Leppänen, J.M. (2006). Emootiokategoriat ja niiden tutkiminen. Teoksessa: H. Hämäläinen, M. Laine, A Revonsuo, & O. Aaltonen (toim.) Mieli & Aivot. Kognitiivisen neurotieteen oppikirja. Turku: Kognitiivisen neurotieteen tutkimuskeskus, Turun yliopisto.https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22321