Kimmo Alho

27.3k total citations · 8 hit papers
210 papers, 21.0k citations indexed

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Kimmo Alho is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Kimmo Alho has authored 210 papers receiving a total of 21.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 189 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 99 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 17 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Kimmo Alho's work include Neuroscience and Music Perception (149 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (83 papers) and Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (78 papers). Kimmo Alho is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Music Perception (149 papers), Multisensory perception and integration (83 papers) and Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (78 papers). Kimmo Alho collaborates with scholars based in Finland, United States and Spain. Kimmo Alho's co-authors include Risto Näätänen, Petri Paavilainen, Teemu Rinne, K. Reinikainen, Mikko Sams, Carles Escera, István Winkler, Risto J. Ilmoniemi, David L. Woods and Alain P. Algazi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Neuroscience and Nature Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Kimmo Alho

206 papers receiving 20.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The mismatch negativity (MMN) in basic research of central auditory processing: A review

2007 2.0k citations Risto Näätänen, Petri Paavilainen et al. profile →
Language-specific phoneme representations revealed by electric and magnetic brain responses

1997 938 citations Risto Näätänen, Minna Huotilainen et al. profile →
Neural Mechanisms of Involuntary Attention to Acoustic Novelty and Change

1998 739 citations Kimmo Alho, Risto Näätänen et al. profile →
Auditory frequency discrimination and event-related potentials

1985 626 citations Mikko Sams, Petri Paavilainen et al. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology/Evoked Potentials Section profile →
Cerebral Generators of Mismatch Negativity (MMN) and Its Magnetic Counterpart (MMNm) Elicited by Sound Changes

1995 569 citations Kimmo Alho profile →
Involuntary Attention and Distractibility as Evaluated with Event-Related Brain Potentials

2000 565 citations Kimmo Alho et al. profile →
Selective attention enhances the auditory 40-Hz transient response in humans

1993 551 citations K. Reinikainen, Kimmo Alho et al. profile →
The Dark Side of Internet Use: Two Longitudinal Studies of Excessive Internet Use, Depressive Symptoms, School Burnout and Engagement Among Finnish Early and Late Adolescents

2016 217 citations Katariina Salmela‐Aro, Kai Hakkarainen et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Kimmo Alho	19.0k	8.5k	2.3k	1.6k	1.1k	210	21.0k
Erich Schröger	15.6k 0.8×	6.7k 0.8×	1.1k 0.5×	1.5k 0.9×	1.6k 1.4×	288	16.6k
Mikko Sams	12.7k 0.7×	6.2k 0.7×	997 0.4×	979 0.6×	2.1k 1.8×	228	15.0k
István Winkler	13.3k 0.7×	5.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.5×	1.9k 1.2×	735 0.6×	221	14.2k
Mari Tervaniemi	11.8k 0.6×	4.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	1.7k 1.1×	2.6k 2.2×	238	13.4k
Minna Huotilainen	8.5k 0.4×	3.4k 0.4×	1.9k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	819 0.7×	236	10.5k
Pascal Belin	10.8k 0.6×	5.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	996 0.6×	1.9k 1.6×	165	13.2k
Sophie K. Scott	12.2k 0.6×	5.8k 0.7×	3.2k 1.4×	718 0.5×	3.0k 2.6×	184	16.4k
Sonja A. Kotz	11.3k 0.6×	5.1k 0.6×	3.0k 1.3×	506 0.3×	2.6k 2.2×	349	13.9k
Claude Alain	11.0k 0.6×	4.2k 0.5×	810 0.3×	783 0.5×	871 0.8×	267	12.0k
Risto Näätänen	41.5k 2.2×	16.5k 2.0×	5.8k 2.5×	3.9k 2.5×	2.5k 2.2×	402	45.5k

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Hannula‐Sormunen, Minna, et al.. (2024). Attenuated processing of task‐irrelevant speech and other auditory stimuli: fMRI evidence from arithmetic tasks. European Journal of Neuroscience. 60(12). 7124–7147. 1 indexed citations

Leppämäki, Sami, Timo Roine, Kimmo Alho, et al.. (2024). Working memory related functional connectivity in adult ADHD and its amenability to training: A randomized controlled trial. NeuroImage Clinical. 44. 103696–103696.

Salmi, Juha, et al.. (2024). Developmental dyslexia susceptibility genes DNAAF4, DCDC2, and NRSN1 are associated with brain function in fluently reading adolescents and young adults. Cerebral Cortex. 34(4).

Li, Fali, Yajing Si, Chunli Chen, et al.. (2022). The different brain areas occupied for integrating information of hierarchical linguistic units: a study based on EEG and TMS. Cerebral Cortex. 33(8). 4740–4751. 5 indexed citations

Moisala, Mona, Jallu Lindblom, Sointu Leikas, et al.. (2022). Brain Responses to Peer Feedback in Social Media Are Modulated by Valence in Late Adolescence. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. 16. 790478–790478. 6 indexed citations

Leminen, Miika, et al.. (2021). Task-dependent cortical activations during selective attention to audiovisual speech. Brain Research. 1775. 147739–147739. 4 indexed citations

Salmela, Viljami, et al.. (2020). Breaking down the cocktail party: Attentional modulation of cerebral audiovisual speech processing. NeuroImage. 224. 117365–117365. 12 indexed citations

Salmi, Juha, Jussi Tohka, Kimmo Alho, et al.. (2019). ADHD desynchronizes brain activity during watching a distracted multi-talker conversation. NeuroImage. 216. 116352–116352. 34 indexed citations

Rämä, Pia, et al.. (2018). Effect of language experience on selective auditory attention: An event-related potential study. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 127. 38–45. 7 indexed citations

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Salmela‐Aro, Katariina, Joona Muotka, Kimmo Alho, Kai Hakkarainen, & Kirsti Lonka. (2016). School burnout and engagement profiles among digital natives in Finland: a person-oriented approach. European Journal of Developmental Psychology. 13(6). 704–718. 79 indexed citations

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Rinne, Teemu, Alexander Degerman, & Kimmo Alho. (2005). Superior temporal and inferior frontal cortices are activated by infrequent sound duration decrements: an fMRI study. NeuroImage. 26(1). 66–72. 118 indexed citations

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Petkov, Christopher I., Xiaojian Kang, Kimmo Alho, et al.. (2004). Attentional modulation of human auditory cortex. Nature Neuroscience. 7(6). 658–663. 262 indexed citations

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Kujala, Anu, Kimmo Alho, Päivi Sivonen, et al.. (2002). Context modulates processing of speech sounds in the right auditory cortex of human subjects. Neuroscience Letters. 331(2). 91–94. 22 indexed citations

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Rinne, Teemu, Kimmo Alho, Risto J. Ilmoniemi, Juha Virtanen, & Risto Näätänen. (2000). Separate Time Behaviors of the Temporal and Frontal Mismatch Negativity Sources. NeuroImage. 12(1). 14–19. 422 indexed citations

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Woods, David L., Kimmo Alho, & Alain P. Algazi. (1993). Intermodal selective attention: Evidence for processing in tonotopic auditory fields. Psychophysiology. 30(3). 287–295. 53 indexed citations

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Alho, Kimmo, Minna Huotilainen, Hannu Tiitinen, et al.. (1993). Memory-related processing of complex sound patterns in human auditory cortex. Neuroreport. 4(4). 391–394. 45 indexed citations

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Nyman, Göte, Kimmo Alho, Pentti Laurinen, et al.. (1990). Mismatch negativity (MMN) for sequences of auditory and visual stimuli: evidence for a mechanism specific to the auditory modality. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology/Evoked Potentials Section. 77(6). 436–444. 94 indexed citations

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Alho, Kimmo, Petri Paavilainen, K. Reinikainen, Mikko Sams, & Risto Näätänen. (1989). Scalp distribution of the mismatch negativity in the auditory event-related brain potential to an infrequent stimulus change. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 7(2-4). 115–116. 1 indexed citations

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Lyytinen, Heikki, Risto Näätänen, Kimmo Alho, et al.. (1987). AUTONOMIC CONCOMITANTS OF EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS IN THE AUDITORY ODDBALL PARADIGM. Psychophysiology. 24(5). 600–600. 36 indexed citations

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Paavilainen, Petri, et al.. (1987). DISAPPEARANCE OF MISMATCH NEGATIVITY DURING SLEEP. International Journal of Neuroscience. 34. 154–155. 1 indexed citations

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