Welcome, student groups, to a virtual neuroimaging laboratory tour

‘Interaction with the group is a significant part of the virtual visit.  We will answer questions, and during the visit there will also be a light-hearted lie detector test. However, the skin's electrical conductivity curve revealing a ‘lie’ will also react to many other things, such as laughter, holding the breath, and being startled’, says research engineer Veli-Matti Saarinen.

In the virtual laboratory eye movements are also monitored remotely, and thermal camera images are studied.

‘Visitors often ask how they might get work here’, Saarinen says.

“And there is also often competition over who gets to be tested’, adds research engineer Tuomas Tolvanen.

Since the spring, visits to Aalto NeuroImaging (ANI) brain imaging laboratories by groups of student groups have been cancelled because of the coronavirus. In addition to Saarinen and Tolvanen, ANI Director Veikko Jousmäki and Toni Auranen, Technical Director of the AMI (Advanced Magnetic Imaging) Centre now want to offer virtual visits to the facilities of the research infrastructure.

‘We want to welcome student groups from Aalto University courses and from upper secondary schools and upper comprehensive schools on a virtual tour to a brain research laboratory’, Veikko Jousmäki says.