TOPI TANSKANEN CURRICULUM VITAE Research Scientist topi.tanskanen@riken.jp RIKEN Center for Brain Science Laboratory for Cognitive Brain Mapping +81-48-462-1111 (Ext. 7108) 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama, 351-0198 Japan EDUCATION 2008 PhD in Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland 1999 MSc in Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2008 Research Scientist, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan 2018 Senior Visiting Researcher, National Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Japan 2014 Part Time Lecturer, Waseda University, Japan 1999 Researcher (graduate student), Brain Research Unit, Low Temperature Laboratory 2008 Helsinki University of Technology, Finland 1998 Neuropsychologist, Haaga Neurological Research Centre, Finland 1998 Neuropsychologist, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland 1997 Trainee Neuropsychologist, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland 1996 Research Assistant, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland GRANTS AND AWARDS 2016 2020 Co-investigator in Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas: Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science, from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan to K. Tanaka (76,180,000 yen) 2012 2016 Co-investigator in Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan to K. Cheng (35,200,000 yen) 2010 2011 Grant-in-aid for Young Scientists from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (3,900,000 yen)
CV, Topi Tanskanen, Page 2 of 5 2008 Finnish Cultural Foundation (18,000 EUR) 2007 Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation (9,000 EUR) 2003 2006 Funding for graduate studies from Finnish Cultural Foundation, Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation, Emil Aaltonen Foundation (46,000 EUR 1999 Kirsti Lagerspetz prize by the Finnish Psychological Society TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2014 Part time lecturer of neuroscience, Waseda University, Japan 2006 2007 Coordinator of Brain Research Unit weekly seminars, Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland 2006 Appointed MEG consultant for training and expertise assignments, Elekta Neuromag Oy, Finland 2002 2004 MEG introductions for undergraduate courses and visiting specialist groups, Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland 2001 Teaching of visual MEG experiments, Integrated Brain Research Unit, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan 1999 2001 Lectures in cognitive psychology courses, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland 1996 1998 Assistant teacher for experimental and statistical methods, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland THESIS SUPERVISION 2001 2002 Teresa Montez (Master s thesis; unofficial supervision) 2005 2006 Ricardo Gutierrez (Master s thesis; unofficial supervision) OTHER ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2006 Ad-hoc reviewer for the following journals Brain Research, Cerebral Cortex, Cortex, eneuro, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Human Brain Mapping, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Nature Scientific Reports, NeuroImage, Neuropsychologia, Neuroscience Research, PLoS ONE, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psykologia, Science 2004 2006 MEG data analysis software and manual validation Elekta Neuromag Oy
CV, Topi Tanskanen, Page 3 of 5 SCIENTIFIC IMPACT Number of publications in peer reviewed journals: 11 Number of citations: 862 (Google Scholar), 551 (ResearcherID) h-index: 10 (Google Scholar), 9 (ResearcherID) ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS Kujala, M. V., Tanskanen, T., Parkkonen, L., & Hari, R. (2009). Facial expressions of pain modulate observer s long-latency STS responses. Human Brain Mapping 30(12): 3910-23. Tanskanen, T., Saarinen, J., Parkkonen, L., & Hari, R. (2008). From local to global: Cortical dynamics of contour integration. Journal of Vision, 8(7): Article 15, 1 12. Tanskanen, T., Näsänen, R., Ojanpää, H., & Hari, R. (2007). Face recognition and cortical responses: effect of stimulus duration. Neuroimage 35(4): 1636 44. Longcamp, M., Tanskanen, T., & Hari, R. (2006). The imprint of action: motor-cortex involvement in visual perception of handwritten letters. Neuroimage 33(2): 681 8. Näsänen, R., Ojanpää, H., Tanskanen, T., & Päällysaho, J. (2006). Estimation of temporal resolution of object identification in human vision. Experimental Brain Research 172(4): 464 71. Furey, M. L., Tanskanen, T., Beauchamp, M. S., Avikainen, S., Uutela, K., Hari, R., & Haxby, J. V. (2006). Dissociation of face-selective cortical responses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103(4):1065 1070. Aspell, J. E., Tanskanen, T., & Hurlbert, A. C. (2005). Neuromagnetic correlates of visual motion coherence. European Journal of Neuroscience 22(11): 2937 45. Tanskanen, T., Näsänen, R., Montez, T., Päällysaho, J., & Hari, R. (2005). Face recognition and cortical responses show similar sensitivity to noise spatial frequency. Cerebral Cortex 15(5): 526 534. Hari, R., Renvall, H., & Tanskanen, T. (2001). Left minineglect in dyslexic adults. Brain 24(Pt 7):1373 80. Vanni, S., Raninen, A., Näsänen, R., Tanskanen, T., & Hyvärinen, L. (2001). Dynamics of cortical activation in a hemianopic patient. Neuroreport 12(4):861 5. Vanni, S., Tanskanen, T., Seppä, M., Uutela, K., & Hari, R. (2001). Simultaneous activation of the human primary visual cortex and anteromedial cuneus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98(5):2776 80.
CV, Topi Tanskanen, Page 4 of 5 SELECTED CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS OF WORK NOT YET PUBLISHED IN JOURNALS Tanskanen, T., Kao, C.H.T., Waggoner, R.A., Ueno, K., Tanaka, K., Cheng, K. (2017). Category tuning in the human face selective areas assessed with high-resolution fmri. Neuroscience 2017, Makuhari, Japan. Lam, A.M., Tanskanen, T., Kao, C.H.T., Kuno, Y., Tanaka, K., Cheng, K. (2017). Reconstructing Perceived Faces from Human Brain Activity. Neuroscience 2017, Makuhari, Japan. Waggoner, R.A., Tanskanen, T., Tanaka, K., Cheng, K. (2017). Impact of multi-band EPI on serial autocorrelations. Annual Scientific Meeting of the ISMRM Japanese Chapter, Osaka, Japan. Tanskanen, T., Kao, C.H.T., Waggoner, R.A., Ueno, K., Tanaka, K., Cheng, K. (2016). Columnar scale representation of faces in the human inferotemporal cortex. Neuroscience 2016, Yokohama, Japan. Kao, C.H., Tanskanen, T., Ueno, K., Waggoner, R.A., Tanaka, K., Cheng, K. (2016). Columnar organization of face orientation processing in human occipital face area. Neuroscience 2016, Yokohama, Japan. Waggoner, R.A., Tanskanen, T., Tanaka, K., Cheng, K. (2016). Enhancement of event-related fmri studies of the human visual system using multi-band EPI. ISMRM 2016, Singapore. Waggoner, R.A., Tanskanen, T., Tanaka, K., Cheng, K. (2015). Evaluation of multiband EPI for event-related fmri studies. ISMRM SMSI Workshop, Pacific Grove, CA, USA. Tanskanen, T., Kao, C.H.T., Waggoner, R.A., Ueno, K., Tanaka, K., Cheng, K. (2015). Category selectivity in human inferotemporal cortex assessed with columnar resolution fmri. Neuroscience 2015, Kobe, Japan. Waggoner, R.A., Tanskanen, T., Tanaka, K., Cheng, K. (2015). Event-related fmri studies in human visual cortex using multiband EPI. Neuroscience 2015, Kobe, Japan. Tanskanen, T., Kao, C.H.T, Waggoner, R.A., Ueno, K., Tanaka, K., Cheng, K. (2015). Linking human and animal studies of cortical organization with columnar resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging. Bridging Biomedical Worlds, Tokyo, Japan. Waggoner, R.A., Zuo, Z., Zhuo, Y., Tanskanen, T., Ueno, K., Tanaka, K., Cheng, K. (2015). Interactions between physiological noise correction and GRAPPA reconstruction in EPI data. ISMRM 2015, Toronto, Canada. Kurashige, H., Yoshida, T. Ozawa, K., Ueno, K., Tanskanen, T., Cheng, K. Cateau, H. (2012). Activity-driven model construction to functionally mimic the nonlinear brain-style information processing Neuroscience 2012, Nagoya, Japan. Tanskanen, T., Waggoner, R.A., Ueno, K., Tanaka, K., Cheng, K. (2012). Imaging human face and object responsive visual areas with spin-echo and gradient-echo fmri. 18th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Beijing, China.
CV, Topi Tanskanen, Page 5 of 5 Tanskanen, T., Waggoner, R.A., Ueno, K., Tanaka, K., Cheng, K. (2011). Comparison of human face and object responsive visual areas mapped by spin-echo and gradient-echo fmri. Neuroscience 2011, Washington, DC, USA. Tanskanen, T., Waggoner, R.A., Ueno, K., Tanaka, K., Cheng, K. (2009). Optimized fmri of human temporo-occipital cortex by accelerated multi-shot spin-echo epi. Neuroscience 2009, San Diego, CA, USA. OTHER PUBLICATIONS Tanskanen, T., Ueno, K., & Cheng, K. (2010). Recent fmri studies of the human visual areas in the occipital and inferotemporal cortex. Illustrated Neurosurgery 2 Temporal & Occipital Lobe (Ed. N. Saito), Medical View, pp. 66-73. (In Japanese, original title 後頭葉および下側頭皮質における最近のヒト視覚領域 fmri 研究 ) Tanskanen, T. (2008). Dynamics of contour, object and face processing in the human visual cortex. University of Helsinki, Department of Psychology, Studies 51:2008. [doctoral dissertation]. Tanskanen, T. (1999). Visual search in graphical user interface. University of Helsinki, Department of Psychology. [Unpublished master's thesis].