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Juho ÄiJÄLä

Juho Äijälä
PhD Student

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Contact me if you would like to know more about my research.​
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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.
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You can find an updated list of my publications on Google Scholar:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SUDLWtQAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

  • Home
  • Lab Members
    • Principal Investigators >
      • Tristan Bekinschtein
      • Andrés Canales-Johnson
      • Corinne Bareham
      • Anat Arzi
      • Daniel Bor
    • Postdocs >
      • Luis Ciria
      • Maria Niedernhuber
      • Mar Estarellas
      • Claudia Pascovich
    • PhD Students >
      • Julia Rathmann-Bloch
      • Laura Stolp
      • Kieran Lee
      • Evan Lewis-Healey
      • Juho Aijala
      • Keenan Down
      • Jessica Corneille
    • Research Assistants >
      • Joaquim Streicher
      • Sean Van Mil
  • Alumni
    • Will Harrison
    • Iulia Comsa
    • Barbara Jachs
    • Alejandro Ezquerro Nassar
    • Alexandra Krugliak
  • Contact
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