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E-mail: timo.jarvilehto/at/oulu.fi

Professor of psychology at University of Oulu, Faculty of Education and Kajaani University Consortium, PL 51 - 87101 KAJAANI, Finland
Tel:  +358-8-632 4675 Fax: +358-8-632 4614

 

Professor of psychology in the University of Oulu (Finland) since1986. Born 1946 in Vaasa, Finland. Studied psychology and physiology (University of Helsinki), psychologist 1969, PhD 1973 (Thesis: Neural coding in the temperature sense). Working in Marburg (assistant professor in physiology), Leipzig (Wilhelm Wundt -professor), Moscow (Academy of Sciences, visiting fellow) and in the universities of Helsinki, Joensuu and Oulu (professor of psychology). Basic field of study brain research and psychophysiology, starting with EEG problems (CNV, evoked potentials), extending to problems of sensory physiology and psychophysics (human microneurography), and to unit studies in behaving animals.  Published several books (in Finnish) dealing with problems of learning, brain activity, and development of educational systems. Since 1990 developing psychological theory under the heading "systemic psychology" based on the theory of the organism-environment system. Since 2004 founded a new laboratory, SkilLab, at Kajaani University Consortium, and developing a research program on Psychology of Experience and Action.

Research

Curriculum vitae

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List of publications

Selected publications on systemic thinking

Address: Kajaani University Consortium, Seminaarinkatu 2, 87100 Kajaani, Finland