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
- 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)
- British Journal of Anaesthesia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - 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) - Dreams (2016) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology Valli Katja
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - The Avatars in the Machine – Dreaming as a Simulation of Social Reality (2016) Open 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) - The Simulation Theories of Dreaming: How to Make Theoretical Progress in Dream Science – A Reply to Martin Dresler (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) - Unennäkö: aivojen "lentosimulaattori" (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)



