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
- Social contents in dreams: An empirical test of the Social Simulation Theory (2019)
- Consciousness and Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Testing the Empathy Theory of Dreaming: The Relationships Between Dream Sharing and Trait and State Empathy (2019)
- Frontiers in Psychology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The influence of dexmedetomidine and propofol on circulating cytokine levels in healthy subjects (2019)
- BMC Anesthesiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Social Simulation Theory (2019) Dreams: Understanding Biology, Psychology, and Culture Tuominen Jarno, Revonsuo Antti, Valli Katja
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Threat simulation theory (2019) Dreams: Understanding Biology, Psychology, and Culture Revonsuo A, Valli K
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Comparative effects of dexmedetomidine, propofol, sevoflurane, and S-ketamine on regional cerebral glucose metabolism in humans: a positron emission tomography study (2018)
- British Journal of Anaesthesia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Dark Dreams are made of this: Agressive and sexual dream content, and dark triad of personality (2018)
- Imagination, Cognition and Personality
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Differentiating Drug-related and State-related Effects of Dexmedetomidine and Propofol on the Electroencephalogram (2018)
- Anesthesiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - 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 Anaesthesia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



