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Katja Valli is a post doctoral rresearcher at the University of Turku, Finland. Her areas of interest are consciousness research, altered states of consciousness, evolutionary function of dreaming, parasomnias, and the neural correlates of dreaming.

Katja Valli has been a presenter in a majority of IASD conferences on the 21st century. She is currently a proud member of the IASD board, serving her second term, and also the Chair of the Research Committee.

Peer reviewed journal articles

Johanson, M., Valli, K., & Revonsuo, A. How to assess ictal consciousness? Behavioral Neurology. (In press)

Noreika, V., Valli, K., Markkula, J., Seppälä, K., Revonsuo, A. (2010). Dream bizarreness and waking thought in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research, 178(3), 562-564.

Noreika, V., Valli, K., Lahtela, H., & Revonsuo, A. (2009). Early-night serial awakenings as a new paradigm for studies on NREM dreaming. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 74(1), 14-18.

Valli, K., & Revonsuo, A. (2009). The Threat Simulation Theory in the Light of Recent Empirical Evidence - A Review. American Journal of Psychology, 122, 17-38.

Revonsuo, A., & Valli, K. (2008). How to test the Threat Simulation Theory. A Commentary to Malcolm-Smith, S., Solms, M., Turnbull, O., and Tredoux, C. Threat in dreams: An adaptation? Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 1292-1297.

Valli, K., Strandholm, T., Sillanmäki, L., & Revonsuo, A. (2008). Dreams Are More Negative Than Real Life – Implications for the Function of Dreaming. Cognition and Emotion, 22(5), 833-861.

Johansson, M., Valli, K., Revonsuo A., Chaplin, J., & Wedlund, J-E. (2008). Alterations in the Contents of Consciousness in Partial Epileptic Seizures. Epilepsy & Behavior, 13, 366-371.

Johansson, M., Valli, K., Revonsuo A., & Wedlund, J-E. (2008). Content analysis of subjective experiences in partial epileptic seizures. Epilepsy & Behavior, 12, 170-182.

Valli, K., Lenasdotter, S., MacGregor, O., & Revonsuo, A. (2007). A Test of the Threat Simulation Theory – Replication of Results in an Independent Sample. Sleep and Hypnosis, 9(1), 30-46.

Valli, K., Revonsuo, A., Pälkäs, O., & Punamäki, R-L. (2006). The Effect of Trauma on Dream Content: A Field Study of Palestinian Children. Dreaming. 16, 63-87.

Valli, K., & Revonsuo, A. (2006) Recurrent dreams: Recurring Threat Simulations? Commentary on Zadra, A., Desjardins, S., & Marcotte, E.: Evolutionary Function of Dreams: A test of the Threat Simulation Theory in Recurrent Dreams. Consciousness and Cognition, 15, 464-469.

Valli, K., Revonsuo, A., Pälkäs, O., Ismail, K. H., Ali, K. J., & Punamäki, R-L. (2005). The Threat Simulation Theory of the Evolutionary Function of Dreaming: Evidence from dreams of traumatized children. Consciousness and Cognition, 14(1), 188-128.

Revonsuo, A. & Valli, K. (2000). Dreaming and Consciousness – Testing the Threat Simulation Theory of the Function of Dreaming. Psyche, 6. http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v6/psyche-6-08-revonsuo.html

Book Chapters

Revonsuo, A., & Valli, K. Dreaming as a model system for consciousness research. In E. Perry, D. Collerton, F. E. N. LeBeau, H. Ashton (Eds.), Towards new horizons in the neuroscience of consciousness (Advances in consciousness research). John Benjamins.

Valli, K., & Revonsuo, A. (2009). Sleep: dreaming data and theories. In William P. Banks, (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Consciousness, Vol 2, pp. 341-355.Oxford: Elsevier.

Valli, K., & Revonsuo, A. (2007). Evolutionary Psychological Approaches to Dream Content. In P. McNamara & D. Barrett (Eds.), The New Science of Dreaming (pp. 95-116). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, Greenwood Press.