Subject: Re: [AUDITORY] Sad news: Prof. Dr. Risto N=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A4=C3=A4t=C3=A4nen_?=has passed away From: Pierre Divenyi <pdivenyi@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 21:54:13 -0700I met him but haven=E2=80=99t worked with bim. You are lucky to have been ab= le to. His passiiis a great loss for all of us. Pardon my typos. It's Apple's fault.=20 > On Oct 23, 2023, at 21:14, Istv=C3=A1n Winkler <winkler.istvan@xxxxxxxx> wro= te: >=20 > =EF=BB=BFDear Colleagues, >=20 > With deep sadness I inform you that prof Dr. Risto N=C3=A4=C3=A4t=C3=A4nen= passed away two weeks ago. >=20 > Risto N=C3=A4=C3=A4t=C3=A4nen was a pioneer of employing brain measures (e= lectroencephalography) to address questions of experimental psychology. He i= s best known for his discovery of the mismatch negativity (MMN) event-relate= d brain potential (ERP) component, which allows the study of auditory sensor= y discrimination, memory, predictive coding, as well as passive attention, a= lthough he has also significantly contributed to our knowledge about the ear= ly effects of selective attention. The wide variety of clinical and non-clin= ical applications of MMN made it one of the most widely studied ERPs in psyc= hophysiology. >=20 > Risto N=C3=A4=C3=A4t=C3=A4nen has not only formed and directed one of the m= ost influential research groups on auditory sensory cognition in his own cou= ntry, the Cognitive Brain Research Unit at the Helsinki University, Finland,= but was a central figure of the international research community, such as h= aving served as the President of the Society for Psychophysiological Researc= h. He has tutored, guided, and inspired generations of young psychologists a= nd neuroscientists. >=20 > Having been one of his international PhD students then collaborating and d= iscussing with him for over three decades, I have learned from him how to co= nduct research in a theoretically meaningful and methodologically sound way.= I also got to know him as a generous and caring person, a true father figur= e helping young researchers not only to become good scientist but also to fi= nd their own way doing it. >=20 > I deeply feel the loss of him for myself, the international community of a= uditory researchers, and science itself. >=20 > Istv=C3=A1n Winkler >=20