Riitta Hari
Riitta Kyllikki Hari is a Finnish neuroscientist, physician and professor at Aalto University. She has led the Brain Research Unit at the Low Temperature Laboratory since 1982. Hari was appointed as Academician of Science on 26 November 2010.
Her most significant achievements relate to the understanding of healthy and diseased human cortex development. This involves magnetoencephalography, a process that allows for investigation of neuronal activity in the brain in a non-invasive way.
Education
Hari graduated from the University of Helsinki as a doctor in 1974 and Doctor of Medical Science in 1980.Research interests
Her research interests are varied and cover many areas of neuroscience. For example:- Brain basis of social interaction and cognition.
- Auditory, tactile, visual and multisensory perception.
- Acute and chronic pain.
- Cortical control of motor action.
- Development of noninvasive human brain imaging.
- Eye tracking.
- Clinical applications of brain imaging.
- Attempts to converge different perspectives on human brain & mind