UT professor receives Philips Nordic Prize
24.01.2008
The mismatch negativity (MMN) method discovered by Professor Näätänen makes it possible to identify the type of hearing or speech difficulty that a child experiences and to measure improvement in brain function resulting from the treatment.
Professor Jüri Allik, Head of UT Institute of Psychology stresses the fact that the authority of Professor Näätänen as the world’s leading researcher in the field is undisputed, as evidenced by the award of the prize. "We have cooperated with Helsinki University in the field of neuroscience for a number of years and with the assistance of Professor Näätänen, we will hopefully be able to develop this area of research at the UT yet further," Allik said.
MMN helps to identify impaired linguistic and hearing-related processes in early childhood, which means that treatment can begin already before the child has to go to school. While various auditive stimuli are played to the child, an electroencephalography (EEG) recording is made of the electrical activity produced in his/her brain. Although an active participation of the child in the test is required, it can still be performed on very small children and even infants.
The prize amount of 50,000 euros was presented to the receipients on 11 January in Lund, Sweden.
Additional information: Professor Jüri Allik, UT Institute of Psychology, phone +372 737 5905
Anneli Maaring
UT Press Representative
phone +372 737 5683; +372 515 0184
anneli [dot] maaring [ät] ut [dot] ee
/64160
Professor Jüri Allik, Head of UT Institute of Psychology stresses the fact that the authority of Professor Näätänen as the world’s leading researcher in the field is undisputed, as evidenced by the award of the prize. "We have cooperated with Helsinki University in the field of neuroscience for a number of years and with the assistance of Professor Näätänen, we will hopefully be able to develop this area of research at the UT yet further," Allik said.
MMN helps to identify impaired linguistic and hearing-related processes in early childhood, which means that treatment can begin already before the child has to go to school. While various auditive stimuli are played to the child, an electroencephalography (EEG) recording is made of the electrical activity produced in his/her brain. Although an active participation of the child in the test is required, it can still be performed on very small children and even infants.
The prize amount of 50,000 euros was presented to the receipients on 11 January in Lund, Sweden.
Additional information: Professor Jüri Allik, UT Institute of Psychology, phone +372 737 5905
Anneli Maaring
UT Press Representative
phone +372 737 5683; +372 515 0184
anneli [dot] maaring [ät] ut [dot] ee
/64160