Paula Virtala

738 total citations
25 papers, 398 citations indexed

About

Paula Virtala is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Music. According to data from OpenAlex, Paula Virtala has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 398 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 16 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 5 papers in Music. Recurrent topics in Paula Virtala's work include Neuroscience and Music Perception (20 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (16 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (9 papers). Paula Virtala is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Music Perception (20 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (16 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (9 papers). Paula Virtala collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Denmark and Hungary. Paula Virtala's co-authors include Eino Partanen, Mari Tervaniemi, Minna Huotilainen, Teija Kujala, Vineta Fellman, Vesa Putkinen, Aleksi J. Sihvonen, Marja Laasonen, Tommi Makkonen and Paavo H. T. Leppänen and has published in prestigious journals such as NeuroImage, Trends in Neurosciences and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Paula Virtala

23 papers receiving 383 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paula Virtala Finland 13 331 139 95 65 50 25 398
Anna Fiveash France 13 360 1.1× 153 1.1× 110 1.2× 56 0.9× 77 1.5× 20 417
T. Christina Zhao United States 10 243 0.7× 106 0.8× 114 1.2× 19 0.3× 25 0.5× 29 350
Enikő Ladányi United States 8 238 0.7× 170 1.2× 54 0.6× 21 0.3× 37 0.7× 12 309
Anu Kujala Finland 14 711 2.1× 181 1.3× 276 2.9× 34 0.5× 42 0.8× 14 779
Nikolai Novitski Finland 7 383 1.2× 36 0.3× 104 1.1× 24 0.4× 16 0.3× 7 397
Osmo Eerola Finland 6 491 1.5× 155 1.1× 237 2.5× 26 0.4× 20 0.4× 9 589
Christine D. Tsang Canada 9 337 1.0× 92 0.7× 113 1.2× 74 1.1× 71 1.4× 14 417
Claudia Kubicek Germany 8 201 0.6× 124 0.9× 83 0.9× 72 1.1× 57 1.1× 13 272
Anthony Brandt United States 6 157 0.5× 52 0.4× 69 0.7× 37 0.6× 49 1.0× 19 224
Markus Christiner Austria 12 310 0.9× 76 0.5× 131 1.4× 85 1.3× 50 1.0× 21 361

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paula Virtala

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paula Virtala

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Paula Virtala. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Paula Virtala based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Paula Virtala. Paula Virtala is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Virtala, Paula, et al.. (2024). Infant mismatch responses to speech-sound changes predict language development in preschoolers at risk for dyslexia. Clinical Neurophysiology. 162. 248–261. 4 indexed citations
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Virtala, Paula, et al.. (2024). Infant neural speech encoding is associated with pre-reading skill development. Clinical Neurophysiology. 164. 100–110. 1 indexed citations
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Kujala, Teija, Vesa Putkinen, & Paula Virtala. (2024). Early maturation of neural auditory novelty detection − Typical development with no major effects of dyslexia risk or music intervention. Clinical Neurophysiology. 167. 131–142.
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Mikkola, Kaija, Satu Pakarinen, Paula Virtala, et al.. (2024). Music and reading activities in early childhood associated with improved language development in preterm infants at 2–3 years of age. Frontiers in Psychology. 15. 1394346–1394346. 1 indexed citations
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Kujala, Teija, Eino Partanen, Paula Virtala, & István Winkler. (2023). Prerequisites of language acquisition in the newborn brain. Trends in Neurosciences. 46(9). 726–737. 15 indexed citations
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Virtala, Paula, et al.. (2023). Beneficial effects of a music listening intervention on neural speech processing in 0–28‐month‐old children at risk for dyslexia. Developmental Science. 26(5). e13426–e13426. 4 indexed citations
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Virtala, Paula, Teija Kujala, Eino Partanen, Jarmo A. Hämäläinen, & István Winkler. (2023). Neural phoneme discrimination in variable speech in newborns – Associations with dyslexia risk and later language skills. Brain and Cognition. 168. 105974–105974. 1 indexed citations
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Virtala, Paula, et al.. (2022). Infancy and early childhood maturation of neural auditory change detection and its associations to familial dyslexia risk. Clinical Neurophysiology. 137. 159–176. 16 indexed citations
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Sihvonen, Aleksi J., et al.. (2021). Structural white matter connectometry of reading and dyslexia. NeuroImage. 241. 118411–118411. 29 indexed citations
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Kujala, Teija, et al.. (2021). Voxel and surface based whole brain analysis shows reading skill associated grey matter abnormalities in dyslexia. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 10862–10862. 12 indexed citations
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Virtala, Paula, et al.. (2020). Infant event-related potentials to speech are associated with prelinguistic development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 45. 100831–100831. 10 indexed citations
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Parkkonen, Lauri, et al.. (2020). Neuromagnetic speech discrimination responses are associated with reading-related skills in dyslexic and typical readers. Heliyon. 6(8). e04619–e04619. 4 indexed citations
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Virtala, Paula, et al.. (2020). Poor neural and perceptual phoneme discrimination during acoustic variation in dyslexia. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 8646–8646. 17 indexed citations
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Virtala, Paula, Eino Partanen, Minna Huotilainen, et al.. (2019). An extensive pattern of atypical neural speech-sound discrimination in newborns at risk of dyslexia. Clinical Neurophysiology. 130(5). 634–646. 36 indexed citations
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Virtala, Paula, Eino Partanen, Mari Tervaniemi, & Teija Kujala. (2018). Neural discrimination of speech sound changes in a variable context occurs irrespective of attention and explicit awareness. Biological Psychology. 132. 217–227. 13 indexed citations
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Virtala, Paula, Minna Huotilainen, Eino Partanen, & Mari Tervaniemi. (2014). Musicianship facilitates the processing of Western music chords—An ERP and behavioral study. Neuropsychologia. 61. 247–258. 38 indexed citations
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Virtala, Paula, Minna Huotilainen, Eino Partanen, Vineta Fellman, & Mari Tervaniemi. (2013). Newborn infants' auditory system is sensitive to Western music chord categories. Frontiers in Psychology. 4. 492–492. 55 indexed citations
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Virtala, Paula, Minna Huotilainen, Vesa Putkinen, Tommi Makkonen, & Mari Tervaniemi. (2012). Musical training facilitates the neural discrimination of major versus minor chords in 13‐year‐old children. Psychophysiology. 49(8). 1125–1132. 37 indexed citations
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Virtala, Paula, et al.. (2010). The preattentive processing of major vs. minor chords in the human brain: An event-related potential study. Neuroscience Letters. 487(3). 406–410. 32 indexed citations

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