Author: Vesa Välimäki

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Vesa Välimäki

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The role of musical aptitude and language skills in preattentive duration processing in school-aged children

2009

We examined 10-12-year old elementary school children's ability to preattentively process sound durations in music and speech stimuli. In total, 40 children had either advanced foreign language production skills and higher musical aptitude or less advanced results in both musicality and linguistic tests. Event-related potential (ERP) recordings of the mismatch negativity (MMN) show that the duration changes in musical sounds are more prominently and accurately processed than changes in speech sounds. Moreover, children with advanced pronunciation and musicality skills displayed enhanced MMNs to duration changes in both speech and musical sounds. Thus, our study provides further evidence for…

MaleAuditory perceptionmedia_common.quotation_subjectForeign languageAptitudeMismatch negativityContingent Negative VariationMultilingualismMusicalPronunciation050105 experimental psychology03 medical and health sciencesChild Development0302 clinical medicineHumansAttention0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesChildLanguagemedia_commonCommunicationVerbal Behaviorbusiness.industry4. EducationGeneral Neuroscience05 social sciencesElectroencephalographyMusicalityAcoustic StimulationDuration (music)Auditory PerceptionEvoked Potentials AuditoryFemaleAptitudePsychologybusinessMusic030217 neurology & neurosurgeryCognitive psychologyNeuroscience Letters

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Staying inside : social withdrawal of the young, Finnish ‘Hikikomori’

2016

This article explores socially withdrawn young Finnish people on an Internet forum who identify with the Japanese hikikomori phenomenon. We aim to overcome the dualism between sociology and psychology found in earlier research by referring to Pierre Bourdieu, who provides insights into how individual choices are constructed in accordance with wider social settings. We focus on the individual level and everyday choices, but we suggest that psychological factors (anxiety, depression) can be seen as properties of social relations rather than as individual states of mind, as young adults have unequal access to valued resources. We scrutinise young people’s specific reasoning related to the soci…

youth studiesSociology and Political Sciencesocial withdrawalmedia_common.quotation_subjectYouth studiesDevelopmental psychology03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicinePhenomenonDualism050602 political science & public administrationmedicineLife-span and Life-course Studiesmedia_common05 social sciencesBourdieusocial exclusionGeneral Social Sciencessyrjäytyminenmedicine.diseaseSocial relation030227 psychiatry0506 political sciencehikikomoriHikikomoriFeelingta5141AnxietySocial exclusionmedicine.symptomPsychologySocial psychologyJournal of Youth Studies

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Yksin yliopistossa : yliopisto-opiskelijoiden kokema yksinäiisyys korkeakouluopiskelun elämänvaiheessa

2018

Tässä pro gradu -tutkielmassa tarkastellaan yliopisto-opiskelijoiden kokemaa yksinäisyyttä elämänkulun tutkimusperinteen näkökulmasta (Elder, 1998). Ensimmäisen tutkimuskysymyksen kautta analysoidaan aikaisemman elämänkulun yhteyttä yksinäisyyttä kokevien opiskelijoiden toimijuuteen. Toisessa tutkimuskysymyksessä huomio kiinnittyy yksinäisyyttä kokevien yliopisto-opiskelijoiden toimijuuden muotoutumiseen yliopiston sosiaalissa yhteisöissä ja yksilöiden sosiaalisissa suhteissa. Tutkimuksen aihe on erittäin merkittävä ja ajankohtainen, sillä yksinäisyyden kokemuksella on havaittu olevan vakavia ja kauaskantoisia seurauksia yksilön hyvinvoinnille (Junttila, 2016a; Kau…

opiskelijatyksinäisyyskorkeakouluopiskelutoimijuuselämänkulkuyliopisto-opiskeluelämänkaariyksinäisyys

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