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
- Dreams are more negative than real life: Implications for the function of dreaming (2008)
- Cognition and Emotion
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - How to test the threat-simulation theory (2008)
- Consciousness and Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A test of the threat simulation theory - Replication of results in an independent sample (2007)
- Sleep and Hypnosis
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Recurrent dreams: Recurring threat simulations? (2006)
- Consciousness and Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The effect of trauma on dream content: A field study of Palestinian children. (2006) Valli K., Revonsuo A., Pälkäs O., & Punamäki R-L.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The threat simulation theory of the evolutionary function of dreaming: Evidence from dreams of traumatized children (2005)
- Consciousness and Cognition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Dreaming and consciousness: Testing the threat simulation theory of the function of dreaming (2000)
- Psyche
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



