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Thomas Hörberg teaches at FLAVOURsome in Dresden

Thomas Hörberg taught PhD students and postdocs during the FLAVOURsome Advanced Training School in Dresden on the topic of ”Linguistic analyses of flavor”. At the end of the lecture, the students got to describe the flavors of ten different food items. A flavor space, a similarity matrix of the flavors, wasthen derived from their descriptions. […]

Systematic review on Olfaction and Working memory published in Chemical Senses

A collaboration with Theresa White of Le Moyne College has been published in Chemical Senses. The systematic review A Cognitive Nose? Evaluating Working Memory Benchmarks in the Olfactory Domain sheds light on the operation of Working memory in olfaction and review research spanning the last 50 years. Highlights: 21 proposed WM benchmarks were assessed for their […]

New Article – Similarity judgements suggests widespread ability to imagine odors

A new article from the Lab – Evidence from odor similarity judgments suggests a widespread ability to imagine odors – was just published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. In this study, comparisons of similarity judgments between smelled and imagined odors revealed a strong correlation, suggesting that perceptual imagery of odors […]

Our AI odor project gets recognition in ”Dagens industri”

A while ago the Swedish Research Council granted Murathan Kurfali 4.5 million for the project ”Doftande AI? Integrering av lukt i stora språkmodeller” – Smelling AI? Integration of smell in Large Language Models! Dagens industri picked this up and has published an interview with Murathan and Jonas. Read it here: https://www.di.se/nyheter/ (in Swedish).

Article in The Guardian

Jonas wrote a piece for The Guardian’s ”The Big Idea” section about the importance of smell. From the article: Smell has an outsize effect on our thoughts and moods, so it’s worth paying more attention to it Find it at the Guardian here: Looking for a better life? Follow you nose

The Forgotten Sense – English release Today!

The Forgotten Sense is a research journey through the uncharted territory of human olfaction – smell. After having been dismissed by scientists and philosophers for centuries, the human sense of smell was rarely fully recognized for its sensitivity or importance for human well-being and psychology. During the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of us lost the smell […]

New study from the Lab reveals olfactory brain networks

In a new study, published in Human Brain Mapping, SCI-lab members Georgios Menelaou and Jonas Olofsson teamed up with researchers from Harvard University, Northwestern University and Karolinska Institute to understand how the smell brain regions are connected to deeper brain networks – the so-called Default-Mode Network (DMN) – which is thought to be responsible for […]

Marta Zakrzewska wins national Junior Researcher award

The National committee for Psychology awards the best dissertation from all newly defended psychology dissertations in Sweden. This year, Marta Zakrzewska won with the dissertation ”Olfaction and prejudice: The role of body odor disgust sensitivity and disease avoidance in understanding social attitudes”. She did her PhD at the SCI-Lab with Jonas Olofsson as her main […]