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Riita Hari
Riitta Hari (born 1948 ) is a Finnish neuroscientist, physician and professor at Aalto University. She has led the Brain Research Unit at the Low Temperature Laboratory and Advanced Magnetic Imaging Centre at the Helsinki University of Technology since 1982. Hari was appointed am academic on 26 November 2010.

Hari's most important achievements relate to magnetoencephalography development and the application of healthy and diseased human cerebral cortex operations research, and observations of human mirror neuron system. [5] In 2008, science writer Karin Bojs of Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, a leading Nobel guesser, predicted a shared medicine prize between Italy's Giacomo Rizzolatti and Riitta Hari for research on mirror neurons in monkeys and humans.

Education
Hari graduated from the University of Helsinki as a medical doctor in 1974 and became a Doctor of Medical Science in 1980. Since 1981 she has specialised in neuroscience.

Publications
Hari was chair of the Mind Forum series of workshops that ran from August 2007 to November 2008.

Media
Hari was a speaker at the 2011 TEDx Talk in Helsinki where she used practical examples to show how using our hands leads to changes in our brain.

Academic Riitta Hari wrote in the prologue of Awareness of Physicality - The Mind, the Brain and the existence of feeling by Johannes Lehtonen: "I believe that in the future, things will move towards the direction of the book by Lehtonen, breaking down barriers between humanistic and scientific anthropology."

Awards
2003 Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine for her pioneering work on measuring precisely, in time and space, activation sequences of healthy and diseased human brain during specific tasks. For this she has greatly contributed to the development of magnetoencephalography, a non-invasive technique that detects tiny changes in the magnetic field associated with brain activity.