Juho Äijälä
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Hello! I am a Ph.D. student at the Cambridge Consciousness and Cognition lab supervised by Tristan Bekinschtein and Andres Canales-Johnson. My research focuses on the informational dynamic of predictive processing. In other words, I study how the brain generates predictions about the external world, and specifically, how information about these predictions is represented and propagated across the cortical hierarchy .
To answer these questions, we employ novel methods from information theory, spectral analyses and computational modelling, combined with non-invasive (EEG/MEG) and invasive (ECoG) electrophysiology across species, from mice to marmosets and humans. To achieve this, together with my supervisor Andres, we are collaborating with The Riken Centre for Brain Science, Japan (for intracranial ECoG recordings from marmosets), Department of Neurosurgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA (for intracranial ECoG-recordings from human patients), and The Ernst Strüngmann Institute, Germany (for work with optogenetic mice). Before starting my PhD at Cambridge, I did my undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of Aberdeen and a master's degree in Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. Even before this I dabbled for one year in computer science, before deciding to switch fields to psychology. I'm also interested in philosophy of mind and all sorts of weird philosophical speculations, as well as meditation and lucid dreaming. My research is currently funded by a Ph.D. scholarship from the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation. |
Ongoing research
Key Research Papers
Gelens*, F., Äijälä*, J., Roberts, L., Komatsu, M., Uran, C., Jensen, M. A., ... & Canales-Johnson, A. (2024). Distributed representations of prediction error signals across the cortical hierarchy are synergistic. Nature Communications, 15(1), 3941.
Pilz, K. S., Äijälä, J., & Manassi, M. (2020). Selective age-related changes in orientation perception. Journal of Vision, 20(13), 13-13.
You can find an updated list of my publications on Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SUDLWtQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Gelens*, F., Äijälä*, J., Roberts, L., Komatsu, M., Uran, C., Jensen, M. A., ... & Canales-Johnson, A. (2024). Distributed representations of prediction error signals across the cortical hierarchy are synergistic. Nature Communications, 15(1), 3941.
Pilz, K. S., Äijälä, J., & Manassi, M. (2020). Selective age-related changes in orientation perception. Journal of Vision, 20(13), 13-13.
You can find an updated list of my publications on Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SUDLWtQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao