Dr. Kaisu Lankinen is an Instructor at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She is a neuroscientist with a background in biomedical engineering, specializing in advanced neuroimaging techniques such as 7 T fMRI, MEG/EEG, TMS, and computational modeling.
Her recent research focuses on the functions of the auditory cortex, particularly the feedforward and
feedback processes involved in sensory-specific and cross-sensory processing. Additionally, she has explored the relationship between speech production and perception.
In her ECR R21 award project, she investigates the connection between the hippocampus and auditory cortex in noisy speech perception. Her ultimate goal is to understand how age-related hearing loss may relate to dementias.
Education
PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland
Select Publications
Lankinen K, Ahlfors SP, Mamashli F, Blazejewska AI, Raij T, Turpin T, Polimeni JR, Ahveninen J. Cortical depth profiles of auditory and visual 7 T functional MRI responses in human superior temporal areas. Hum Brain Mapp. 2023 Feb 1;44(2):362- 372.
Lankinen K, Ahveninen J, Jas M, Raij T, Ahlfors SP. Neuronal Modeling of Cross-Sensory Visual Evoked Magnetoencephalography Responses in the Auditory Cortex. J Neurosci. 2024 Apr 24;44(17).
Lankinen K, Ahveninen J, Uluç I, Daneshzand M, Mareyam A, Kirsch JE, Polimeni JR, Healy BC, Tian Q, Khan S, Nummenmaa A, Wang QM, Green JR, Kimberley TJ, Li S. Role of articulatory motor networks in perceptual categorization of speech signals: a 7T fMRI study. Cereb Cortex. 2023 Dec 9;33(24):11517-11525.
Highlights
ECR R21 Award (NIDCD)