Katja Valli
PhD, Docent
katval@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5133-8664 |
Areas of expertise
Consciouness; altered states of consciousness; sleep; dreaming; anesthesia; evolutionary psychology
Consciouness; altered states of consciousness; sleep; dreaming; anesthesia; evolutionary psychology
Biography
My research mainly focuses on the simulation theories of the evolutionary function
of dreaming (the threat simulation and social simulation theories), and on understanding the neural mechanisms of conscious experiences
in general, and dreaming in particular.
Research
Consciousness research, Altered states of consciousness, Neural correlates of Consciousness, Sleep and Dreaming, Anesthesia, Evolutionary psychology
Consciousness research, Altered states of consciousness, Neural correlates of Consciousness, Sleep and Dreaming, Anesthesia, Evolutionary psychology
Teaching
I regularly teach courses on sleep, dreaming and other altered states of consciusness, and on evolutionary psychology.
Publications
- ‘No Man is an Island’: Effects of social seclusion on social dream content and REM sleep (2022)
- British Journal of Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Unihalvaus (2022) Lääkärikirja Duodecim Valli Katja
(D2 Article in a professional compilation book) - Dream Sharing and the Enhancement of Empathy: Theoretical and Applied Implications (2021)
- Dreaming
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Foundations of human consciousness: Imaging the twilight zone (2021)
- Journal of Neuroscience
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Nightmare Distress Questionnaire: associated factors (2021)
- Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - On no man’s land: Subjective experiences during unresponsive and responsive sedative states induced by four different anesthetic agents (2021)
- Consciousness and Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The dynamics of affect across the wake-sleep cycle: From waking mind-wandering to night-time dreaming (2021)
- Consciousness and Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Alpha band frontal connectivity is a state-specific electroencephalographic correlate of unresponsiveness during exposure to dexmedetomidine and propofol (2020)
- British Journal of Anaesthesia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Dreaming and parasomnias in narcolepsy (2020) Parasomnia dreaming: Exploring other forms of sleep consciousness Valli K., Markkula J., Lamusuo S.
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Dreams and nightmares in healthy adults and in patients with sleep and neurological disorders (2020)
- Lancet Neurology
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Modulating dream experience: Noninvasive brain stimulation over the sensorimotor cortex reduces dream movement (2020)
- Scientific Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Dream Catcher experiment: blinded analyses failed to detect markers of dreaming consciousness in EEG spectral power (2020)
- Neuroscience of Consciousness
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Holocaust as a lifelong nightmare: Posttraumatic symptoms and dream content in Polish Auschwitz survivors 30 years after WWII (2020)
- American Journal of Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Content of dreams (2019) Dreams: Understanding Biology, Psychology, and Culture Hoss R J, Valli K
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Dreams as self-simulation and world simulation (2019) Dreams: Understanding Biology, Psychology, and Culture Windt J, Valli K
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Dreams: Understanding Biology, Psychology, and Culture (2019) Valli K, Hoss RJ
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - EEG Frontal Alpha Asymmetry and Dream Affect: Alpha Oscillations over the Right Frontal Cortex during REM Sleep and Presleep Wakefulness Predict Angerin REM Sleep Dreams (2019)
- Journal of Neuroscience
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Predictive coding and protoconsciousness (2019) Dreams: Understanding Biology, Psychology, and Culture Tuominen Jarno, Valli Katja
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Single-subject analysis of N400 event-related potential component with five different methods (2019)
- International Journal of Psychophysiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Sleep Parameter Assessment Accuracy of a Consumer Home Sleep Monitoring Ballistocardiograph Beddit Sleep Tracker: A Validation Study (2019)
- Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



