Skip to main content

Heini Saarimäki

University Instructor
Tampere University
heini.saarimaki [at] tuni.fi (heini[dot]saarimaki[at]tuni[dot]fi)
phone number+358503182531

About me

I currently work as an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellow at the Human Information Processing Laboratory in the Faculty of Social Sciences. My research interests are in the field of social and affective neuroscience, and my research has focused on the neural underpinnings of human emotions. I have studied the neural basis of different emotions and their relationship to subjective experiences of emotion, as well as the flow of emotions during natural interaction. Currently, I lead my research project Decoding Emotions Across Life-span which focuses on the development of emotional experiences and their neural bases. In my research, I combine naturalistic stimuli (such as movies and narratives), brain imaging (mostly fMRI), and pattern classification methods with self-reports and other measures of subjective experiences. You can find a full list of my publication in the Tampere University Research Portal

Responsibilities

Research, supervision of master's and doctoral theses.

Fields of expertise

Social and affective neuroscience, emotions, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

Research fields

affective neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, psychology

Funding

Academy of Finland (2019-2022)