All publications

(requests for pdf.files of the following articles can be addressed to jari.hietanen@uta.fi)

Akechi, H., Senju, A., Uibo, H., Kikuchi, Y., Hasegawa, T., & Hietanen, J. K. (2013). Attention to eye contact in the West and East: Autonomic responses and evaluative ratings. PLoS One, 8, e59312. 

Astikainen, P., & Hietanen, J. K. (2009). Event-related potentials to task-irrelevant changes in facial expressions. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 5, 30, doi:10.1186/1744-9081-5-30.

Calvo, M.G. & Nummenmaa, L. (2009). Lateralised covert attention in word identification. Laterality, 14, 178-195.

Cong, F., Leppänen, P. H. T., Astikainen, P., Hämäläinen, J.,  Hietanen, J. K., & Ristaniemi, T. (2011). Dimension reduction: Additional benefit of an optimal filter for independent component analysis to extract event-related potentials, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 201, 269-280. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.07.015

Cong, F., Phan, A. H., Astikainen, P., Zhao, Q., Wu, Q., Hietanen, J. K., Ristaniemi, T., & Cichocki, A. (2013). Multi-domain feature extraction for event-related potential through nonnegative multi-way array decomposition from low dense array EEG. International Journal of Neural Systems, 23, 1350006. doi: 10.1142/S0129065713500068

Helminen, T. M., Kaasinen, S. M., & Hietanen, J. K. (2011). Eye contact and arousal: the effects of stimulus duration. Biological Psychology, 88, 124-130. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.07.002

Hietanen, J. K. (1999). Does your gaze direction and head orientation shift my visual attention. Neuroreport, 10, 3443-3447.

Hietanen, J. K. (2002). Social attention orienting integrates visual information from head and body  orientation. Psychological Research, 66, 174-179.

Hietanen, J. K., & Astikainen, P. (2013). N170 response to facial expressions is modulated by the affective congruency between the emotional expression and preceding affective picture. Biological Psychology, 92, 114– 124. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.10.005

Hietanen, J. K., Klemettilä, T., Kettunen, J. E., & Korpela, K. M. (2007). What is a nice smile like that doing in a place like this? Automatic affective responses to environments influence the recognition of facial expressions. Psychological Research, 71, 539-552.

Hietanen, J. K. & Korpela, K. M. (2004). Do both negative and positive environmental scenes elicit rapid affective processing? Environment and Behavior, 36, 558-577.

Hietanen, J. K. & Leppänen, J. M. (2003). Does facial expression affect attention orienting by gaze direction cues? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29, 1228-1243.

Hietanen, J. K., & Leppänen, J. M. (2008). Judgment of other people's facial expressions of emotions is influenced by their concurrent affective hand movements. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 49, 221-230.

Hietanen, J. K., Leppänen, J. M., Illi, M., & Surakka, V. (2004). Evidence for the integration of audiovisual emotional information at the perceptual level of processing. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 16, 769-790.

Hietanen, J. K., Leppänen, J. M., & Lehtonen, U. (2004). Perception of emotions in the hand movement quality of Finnish sign language. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 28, 53-64.

Hietanen, J. K., Leppänen, J. M., Nummenmaa, L., & Astikainen, P. (2008). Visuospatial attention shifts by gaze and arrow cues: An ERP study. Brain Research, 1215, 123-136.

Hietanen, J. K., Leppänen, J. M., Peltola, M. J., Linna-aho, K. & Ruuhiala, H. J. (2008). Seeing direct and averted gaze activates the approach–avoidance motivational brain systems. Neuropsychologia, 46, 2423-2430.

Hietanen, J. K., Nummenmaa, L. (2011). The naked truth: the face and body sensitive N170 response is enhanced for nude bodies. PLoS ONE 6(11): e24408. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024408.

Hietanen, J. K., Nummenmaa, L., Nyman, M. J., Parkkola, R., & Hämäläinen, H. (2006). Automatic attention orienting by social and symbolic cues activates different neural networks: An fMRI study. Neuroimage, 33, 406-413.

Hietanen, J. K. & Yrttimaa, K. (2005). Where a person with a squint is actually looking. Gaze-cued orienting in crossed eyes. Visual Cognition, 12, 117-126.

Hietanen, J. K., Manninen, P., Sams, M., & Surakka, V. (2001). Does audiovisual speech perception use information about facial configuration? The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 13, 395-407.

Hietanen, J. K., Surakka, V. & Linnankoski, I. (1998). Facial electromyographic responses to vocal affect expressions. Psychophysiology, 35, 530-536.

Kaartinen, M., Puura, K., Mäkelä, T., Rannisto, M., Lemponen, R.,  Helminen, M., Salmelin, R., Himanen, S.L., & Hietanen, J. K. (2012). Autonomic arousal to direct gaze correlates with social impairments among children with ASD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 42, 1917-1927. doi:10.1007/s10803-011-1435-2

Korpela, K., Klemettilä, T. & Hietanen, J. K. (2002). Evidence for rapid affective evaluation of environmental scenes. Environment and  Behavior, 34, 634-650.

Kylliäinen, A., Braeutigam, S., Hietanen, J. K., Swithenby, S. J. & Bailey, A. J. (2006). Face and gaze processing in normally developing children: A magnetoencephalographic study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 801-810.

Kylliäinen, A, Braeutigam, S., Hietanen, J. K., Swithenby, S. J. & Bailey, A. J. (2006). Face- and gaze-sensitive neural responses in children with autism: A Magnetoencephalographic Study. European Journal of Neuroscience. 24, 2679?2690.

Kylliäinen, A. & Hietanen, J. K. (2004). Attention orienting by another's gaze direction in children with autism and Asperger's syndrome.  Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 45, 435-445.

Kylliäinen, A., & Hietanen, J. K. (2006). Skin conductance responses to another person's gaze direction in children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 36, 517-525. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-006-0091-4

Kylliäinen, A., Wallace, S., Leppänen, J. M., Coutanche, M., Cusack, J., Bailey, A. J., &  Hietanen,  J. K. (2012). Affective-motivational brain responses to direct gaze in children with autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 53, 790–797. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2011.02522.x

Leppänen, J. M. (2006). Emotional information processing in mood disorders: a review of behavioral and neuroimaging findings. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 19, 34-39.

Leppänen, J. M. & Hietanen, J. K. (2004). Emotionally positive facial expressions are processed faster than negative facial expressions, but why? Psychological Research,  69, 22-29.

Leppänen, J. M. & Hietanen, J. K. (2001). Emotion recognition and social adjustment in school-aged girls and boys. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 42, 429-435.

Leppänen, J. M. & Hietanen, J. K. (2003). Affect and face perception: Odors modulate the recognition advantage of happy faces. Emotion, 3, 315-326.

Leppänen, J. M., & Hietanen, J. K. (2007). Is there more in a happy face than just a big smile? Visual Cognition, 15, 468-490.

Leppänen, J.M., Hietanen, J.K., & Koskinen, K. (2008). Differential early ERPs to fearful versus neutral facial expressions: a response to the salience of the eyes? Biological Psychology, 78, 150-158.

Leppänen, J. M., Kauppinen, P., Peltola, M. J., & Hietanen, J. K. (2007). Differential electrocortical responses to increasing intensities of fearful and happy emotional expressions. Brain Research, 1166, 103-109.

Leppänen, J.M, Milders, M., Bell, J.S., Terriere, E., & Hietanen, J.K. (2004).Depression biases the recognition of neutral faces. Psychiatry Research, 128, 123-133.

Leppänen, J. M., Moulson, M. C., Vogel-Farley, V. K., Nelson, C. A. (2007). An ERP study of emotional face processing in the adult and infant brain. Child Development, 78, 232-245.

Leppänen, J.M., & Nelson, C.A. (2006). The development and neural bases of facial emotion recognition. In R.V. Kail (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Vol. 34 (pp. 207-245). San Diego: Academic Press.

Leppänen, J. M. & Nelson, C. A. (2009). Tuning the developing brain to social signals of emotions. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 10, 37-47.

Leppänen, J. M., Niehaus, D.J.H., Koen, L., Schoeman, R., & Emsley, R. (2008). Allocation of attention to the eye and mouth region of faces in schizophrenia patients. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 13, 505-519.

Leppänen, J. M., Niehaus, D.J.H., Du Toit, E., Koen, L., Schoeman, R., & Emsley, R. (2008). Deficits in facial affect recognition in unaffected siblings of Xhosa schizophrenia patients: evidence for a neurocognitive endophenotype. Schizophrenia Research, 99, 1-3, 270-273.

Leppänen, J. M., Niehaus, D.J.H., Du Toit, E., Koen, L., Schoeman, R., & Emsley, R. (2006). Emotional face processing deficit in schizophrenia: a replication study in a South African Xhosa Population. Schizophrenia Research, 84, 323-330.

Leppänen, J. M., Peltola, M. J., Mäntymaa, M., Koivuluoma, M., Salminen, A., & Puura, K. (2010). Cardiac and behavioral evidence for  emotional influences on attention in 7-month-old infants. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 34, 547-553.

Leppänen, J. M., Peltola, M. J., Puura, K., Mäntymaa, M., Mononen, N., & Lehtimäki, T. (2011). Serotonin and early cognitive development: Variation in the tryptophan hydroxylase 2 gene is associated with visual attention in 7-month-old infants. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52, 1144-1152.

Leppänen, J.M., Richmond, J., Moulson, M.C., Vogel-Farley, V.K., Nelson, C.A. (2009). Categorical representation of facial expressions in the infant brain. Infancy, 14, 346-362.

Leppänen, J. M., Tenhunen, M., & Hietanen, J. K. (2003). Faster choice-reaction times to positive than negative facial expressions: The role of cognitive and motor processes. Journal of Psychophysiology, 17, 113-123.

Linkenkaer-Hansen, K., Palva, J. M., Sams, M., Hietanen, J. K., Aronen, H. J. & Ilmoniemi R. J. (1998) Face-selective processing in human exstrastriate cortex around 120 ms after stimulus onset revealed by magneto- and electroencephalography. Neuroscience Letters, 253, 147-150.

Milders, M., Hietanen, J. K., Leppänen, J. M., & Braun, M. (in press). Detection of emotional faces is modulated by the direction of eye gaze. Emotion.

Nummenmaa, L., & Hietanen, J. K. (2006). Gaze distractors influence saccadic curvature: Evidence for the role of the oculomotor system in gaze-cued orienting. Vision Research, 46, 3674-3680.

Nummenmaa, L., & Hietanen, J. K. (2009). How attentional systems process conflicting cues? The superiority of social over symbolic orienting revisited. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 1738-1754.

Nummenmaa, L., Hietanen, J. K., Calvo, M. G., & Hyönä, J. (2011). Food catches the eye but not for everyone: a BMI–contingent attentional bias in rapid detection of nutriments. PLoS ONE 6: e19215. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0019215

Nummenmaa, L., Hietanen, J. K., Santtila, P., & Hyönä, J. (2012). The body of evidence: gender and visibility of sexual cues modulate visual scanning of faces and bodies. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 41, 1439-1451. doi:10.1007/s10508-012-9911-0

Nummenmaa, L., Hirvonen, J., Parkkola, R., & Hietanen, J. K. (2008). Is emotional contagion special? An fMRI study on neural systems for affective and cognitive empathy. Neuroimage, 43, 571-580.

Nummenmaa, L., Hyönä, J., & Calvo, M.G. (2009). Emotional scene content drives the saccade generation system reflexively. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 35, 305-323.

Nummenmaa, L. Hyönä, J., & Hietanen, J.K. (2009). I'll walk this way: Eyes reveal the direction of locomotion and make passers-by to look and go the other way. Psychological Science, 20, 1454-1458.

Nummenmaa, L., Peets, K., & Salmivalli, C. (2008). Automatic activation of adolescents' peer-relational schemas: Evidence from priming with facial identity. Child Development, 79, 1659-1675.

Peltola, M. J., Hietanen, J. K., Forssman, L., & Leppänen, J. M. (in press). The emergence and stability of the attentional bias to fearful faces in infancy. Infancy.

Peltola, M. J., Leppänen, J. M., & Hietanen, J. K. (2011). Enhanced cardiac and attentional responding to fearful faces in 7-month-old infants. Psychophysiology, 48, 1291-1298.

Peltola, M. J., Leppänen, J.M., Mäki, S., & Hietanen, J. K. (2009). Emergence of enhanced attention to fearful faces between 5 and 7 months of age. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 4, 134-142.

Peltola, M. J., Leppänen, J.M., Palokangas, T., & Hietanen, J. K. (2008). Fearful faces modulate looking time and attention disengagement in 7-month-old infants. Developmental Science, 11, 60-68.

Peltola, M. J., Leppänen, J. M., Vogel-Farley, V. K., Hietanen, J. K., & Nelson, C. A. (2009). Fearful faces but not fearful eyes alone delay attention disengagement in 7-month-old infants. Emotion, 9, 560-565.

Pönkänen, L. M., & Hietanen, J. K. (2012). Eye contact with neutral and smiling faces: effects on autonomic responses and frontal EEG asymmetry. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6, article 122. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00122

Pönkänen, L. M., Hietanen, J. K., Peltola, M. J., Kauppinen, P. K., Haapalainen, A., & Leppänen, J. M. (2008). Facing a real person: An ERP study. Neuroreport, 19, 497-501.

Pönkänen, L. M.,  Alhoniemi, A., Leppänen, J. M., & Hietanen, J. K. (2011). Does it make a difference if I have an eye contact with you or with your picture? An ERP study. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6, 486-494. doi:10.1093/scan/nsq068

Pönkänen, L. M., Peltola, M. J., & Hietanen, J. K. (2011). The observer observed: Frontal EEG asymmetry and autonomic responses differentiate between another person’s direct and averted gaze when the face is seen live. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 82, 180-187.

Schoeman, R., Niehaus, D.J.H., Koen, L, & Leppänen, J.M. (2009). Emotion recognition deficits as a neurocognitive marker of schizophrenia liability. In M. S. Ritsner (Ed.), The Handbook of Neuropsychiatric Biomarkers, Endophenotypes and Genes (pp. 163-176). Springer.

Surakka, V. & Hietanen, J. K. (1998). Facial and emotional reactions to Duchenne and non-Duchenne smiles. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 29, 23-33.

Surakka, V., Tenhunen-Eskelinen, M., Hietanen, J. K. & Sams, M. (1998). Modulation of human auditory information processing by emotional visual stimuli. Cognitive Brain Research, 7, 159-163.

Other publications (in Finnish)

Castrén, M. l., & Kylliäinen, A. (2013). Autistisen käyttäytymisen monitekijäinen tausta. Suomen Lääkärilehti, 8, 569-574.

Hietanen, J. K. (2001). Havaintoja kasvoista. Psykologia, 36, 257-268.

Hietanen, J. K. (2006). Kasvot ja katse sosiaalisessa vuorovaikutuksessa. Teoksessa: H. Hämäläinen, M. Laine, O. Aaltonen, & A. Revonsuo (toim.) Mieli ja aivot: Kognitiivisen neurotieteen oppikirja. Kognitiivisen neurotieteen tutkimuskeskus, Turun yliopisto, Turku, s. 406-414.

Hietanen, J. Miten tunnistetaan kasvot. Tiede 2000, 1993, 3, 30-31.

Hietanen, J., Leppänen, J., & Peltola M. (2008). Ilo pinnassa: positiivisten tunteiden ilmeneminen kasvoilla. Teoksessa: R.-L. Punamäki, P. Nieminen, & M. Kiviaho (toim.) Mieli ja terveys: ilon ja muutoksen psykologiaa. Psykologian  laitos, Tampereen yliopisto, Tampere, s. 11-26.

Kylliäinen, A. (2006). Autismi sosiaalisen vuorovaikutuksen häiriönä. Teoksessa: H. Hämäläinen, M. Laine, O. Aaltonen, & A. Revonsuo (toim.) Mieli ja aivot: Kognitiivisen neurotieteen oppikirja. Kognitiivisen neurotieteen tutkimuskeskus, Turun yliopisto, Turku, s. 415-419.

Kylliäinen, A., & Hietanen, J. K. (2013). Kasvot, katse ja autismi. Suomen Lääkärilehti, 8, 581-586.

Leppänen, J. M. (2007). Depressioon liittyvät emotionaaliset muutokset ja niiden hermostollinen perusta. Duodecim, 123, 297-303.

Leppänen, J.M. (2006). Emootiokategoriat ja niiden tutkiminen. Teoksessa: H. Hämäläinen, M. Laine, A Revonsuo, & O. Aaltonen /toim.) Mieli ja Aivot. Kognitiivisen neurotieteen oppikirja. Turku: Kognitiivisen neurotieteen tutkimuskeskus, Turun yliopisto, Turku, s. 311-317.

Leppänen, J. M. (2001). Ennustaako tunneilmaisujen tunnistamistarkkuus lasten sosiaalista kyvykkyyttä? Psykologia, 36, 429-438.

Leppänen, J. M., & Hietanen, J. K. (2004). Kasvonilmeiden havaitseminen, emootio ja kognitio. Psykologia, 39, 8-18.

Leppänen, J. & Hietanen J. K. Lapsi vastaa jo varhain tunteisiin. Alakerta-artikkeli Aamulehdessä 19.11.2001.