Severi Santavirta

- Postdoctoral Researcher
Turku PET Centre (Independent units)

svtsan@utu.fi

Publications

Four-dimensional neural space for moral inference (2026)
- NeuroImage
Chen, Jinglu; Santavirta, Severi; Putkinen, Vesa; Boggio, Paulo Sérgio; Nummenmaa, Lauri
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Reduced inter-subject functional connectivity during movies in autism: replicability across cross-national fMRI datasets (2026)
- Molecular autism
Lin, Feng; Albantakis, Laura; Noppari, Tuomo; Santavirta, Severi; Brandi, Marie-Luise; Sun, Lihua; Lukkarinen, Lasse; Tani, Pekka; Salmi, Juha; Nummenmaa, Lauri; Dukart, Juergen; Schilbach, Leonhard; Lahnakoski, Juha M.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Striatal dopamine synthesis capacity in Parkinson’s disease: Effects of age, sex, and body mass index in a large [18F]fluorodopa PET cohort (2026)
- NeuroImage: Clinical
Malén, Tuulia; Tuisku, Jouni; Bucci, Marco; Santavirta, Severi; Kaasinen, Valtteri; Kaasalainen, Sakari; Isojärvi, Janne; Hietala, Jarmo; Rinne, Juha; Nummenmaa, Lauri
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Cerebral topographies of perceived and felt emotions (2025)
- Imaging neuroscience
Saarimaki, Heini; Nummenmaa, Lauri; Volynets, Sofia; Santavirta, Severi; Aksiuto, Anna; Sams, Mikko; Jaaskelainen, Iiro P.; Lahnakoski, Juha M.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Exposure to bullying engages social distress circuits in the adolescent and adult brain (2025)
- Journal of Neuroscience
Paranko, Birgitta; Garandeau, Claire F.; Seppälä, Kerttu; Putkinen, Vesa; Santavirta, Severi; Hirvonen, Jussi; Salmivalli, Christina; Nummenmaa, Lauri
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
GPT-4V shows human-like social perceptual capabilities at phenomenological and neural levels (2025)
- Imaging neuroscience
Santavirta, Severi; Wu, Yuhang; Suominen, Lauri; Nummenmaa, Lauri
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Principles of social perception: Investigating perceptual and neural mechanisms with cinematic stimuli (2025) Santavirta, Severi
(G5 Article dissertation )
Reward responses to vicarious feeding depend on body mass index (2025)
- Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience
Järvinen, Lili; Santavirta, Severi; Putkinen, Vesa; Karlsson, Henry K.; Seppälä, Kerttu; Sun, Lihua; Hudson, Matthew; Hirvonen, Jussi; Nuutila, Pirjo; Nummenmaa, Lauri
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Sex differences in gaze patterns while viewing dynamic and static sexual scenes (2025)
- Maturitas
Putkinen, Vesa; Lewandowski, Elina; Santavirta, Severi; Nummenmaa, Lauri
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Alterations in type 2 dopamine receptors across neuropsychiatric conditions: A large-scale PET cohort (2024)
- NeuroImage: Clinical
Malén, T.; Santavirta, S.; De Maeyer, S.; Tuisku, J.; Kaasinen, V.; Kankare, T.; Isojärvi, J.; Rinne, J.; Hietala, J.; Nuutila, P.; Nummenmaa, L.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
A taxonomy for human social perception: Data-driven modeling with cinematic stimuli (2024)
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Santavirta, Severi; Malén, Tuulia; Erdemli, Asli; Nummenmaa, Lauri
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Glucose metabolism and radiodensity of abdominal adipose tissue : A 5-year longitudinal study in a large PET cohort (2024)
- Clinical Endocrinology
Pak, Kyoungjune; Santavirta, Severi; Shin, Seunghyeon; Nam, Hyun-Yeol; De Maeyer, Sven; Nummenmaa, Lauri

(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Brain Glucose Metabolism and Aging: A 5-Year Longitudinal Study in a Large Positron Emission Tomography Cohort (2023)
- Diabetes Care
Pak, Kyoungjune; Malén, Tuulia; Santavirta, Severi; Shin, Seunghyeon; Nam, Hyun-Yeol; De Maeyer, Sven; Nummenmaa, Lauri
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal)
Decoding brain basis of laughter and crying in natural scenes (2023)
- NeuroImage
Nummenmaa Lauri, Malèn Tuulia, Nazari-Farsani Sanaz, Seppälä Kerttu, Sun Lihua, Santavirta Severi, Karlsson Henry K, Hudson Matthew, Hirvonen Jussi, Sams Mikko, Scott Sophie, Putkinen Vesa
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Functional organization of social perception networks in the human brain (2023)
- NeuroImage
Santavirta Severi, Karjalainen Tomi, Nazari-Farsani Sanaz, Hudson Matthew, Putkinen Vesa, Seppälä Kerttu, Sun Lihua, Glerean Enrico, Hirvonen Jussi, Karlsson Henry K, Nummenmaa Lauri
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Neural responses to biological motion distinguish autistic and schizotypal traits (2023)
- Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Hudson Matthew, Santavirta Severi, Putkinen Vesa, Seppälä Kerttu, Sun Lihua, Karjalainen Tomi, Karlsson Henry K, Hirvonen Jussi, Nummenmaa Lauri
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Pattern recognition reveals sex-dependent neural substrates of sexual perception (2023)
- Human Brain Mapping
Putkinen Vesa, Nazari-Farsani Sanaz, Karjalainen Tomi, Santavirta Severi, Hudson Matthew, Seppälä Kerttu, Sun Lihua, Karlsson Henry K., Hirvonen Jussi, Nummenmaa Lauri
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Magia: Robust Automated Image Processing and Kinetic Modeling Toolbox for PET Neuroinformatics (2020)
- Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
Karjalainen Tomi, Tuisku Jouni, Santavirta Severi, Kantonen Tatu, Bucci Marco, Tuominen Lauri, Hirvonen Jussi, Hietala Jarmo, Rinne Juha O, Nummenmaa Lauri
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)