Severi Santavirta

- Doctoral Researcher,
- Doctoral Candidate
- Research Assistant
- Postdoctoral Researcher
Turku PET Centre (Independent units)

svtsan@utu.fi

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.
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
GPT-4V shows human-like social perceptual capabilities at phenomenological and neural levels (2025)
- Imaging neuroscience
Santavirta, Severi; Wu, Yuhang; Suominen, Lauri; Nummenmaa, Lauri
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
Sex differences in gaze patterns while viewing dynamic and static sexual scenes (2025)
- Maturitas
Putkinen, Vesa; Lewandowski, Elina; Santavirta, Severi; Nummenmaa, Lauri
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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