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
- Dream emotions: a comparison of home dream reports with laboratory early and late REM dream reports (2018)
- Journal of Sleep Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Dreaming and awareness during dexmedetomidine- and propofol-induced unresponsiveness (2018)
- British Journal of AnaesthesiaBritish Journal of Anaesthesia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Relationship between EEG frontal alpha asymmetry and dream affect (2018)
- Journal of Sleep Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Spoken words are processed during dexmedetomidine-induced unresponsiveness (2018)
- How You Measure Is What You Get: Differences in Self- and External Ratings of Emotional Experiences in Home Dreams (2017)
- American Journal of Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Nightmares as predictors of suicide: an extension study including war veterans (2017)
- Scientific Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Dreams2016The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology Valli Katja
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - 2016Open MIND : Philosophy and the Mind Sciences in the 21st Century Revonsuo Antti, Tuominen Jarno, Valli Katja
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - (2016) Open MIND : Philosophy and the Mind Sciences in the 21st Century Revonsuo A, Tuominen J, Valli K
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - (2016) Mielen salat Antti Revonsuo, Jarno Tuominen, Katja Valli
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Winter is coming: nightmares and sleep problems during seasonal affective disorder (2016)
- Journal of Sleep Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Dreaming furiously? – A sleep laboratory study on the dream content of people with parkinson's disease and with or without rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder (2015)
- Sleep Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Nightmares: Risk Factors Among the Finnish General Adult Population (2015)
- Sleep
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Unet – Sattumalta syntyneitä vai suunniteltuja simulaatioita? (2015) Kaikkea sattuu Valli Katja
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - (2014)
- Consciousness and Cognition
- Nightmares are associated with seasonal variations in mood and behaviorCan observers link dream content to behaviours in rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder? A cross-sectional experimental pilot study (2014)
- Journal of Sleep Research
(Other publication) - Nightmares: Prevalence among the Finnish General Adult Population and War Veterans during 1972-2007 (2013)
- Sleep
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2012)
- Journal of Sleep Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Can transcranial direct current stimulation over sensorimotor cortex alter dream content? (2012)
- Journal of Sleep Research
(Other publication) - Psykologin luonto (2012) Monitieteinen ympäristötutkimus Valli Katja
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book)