Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays! We will back in the begining of January.
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Visit by Prof. Natalie Phillips
We were honored to welcome professor Natalie Phillips to the lab on Thursday Dec 4. Prof Phillips is a leading Canadian neuropsychologist and one of the inventors of the MOCA, a brief cognitive assessment. Prof Phillips gave a talk about the role of sensory impairments in cognitive aging.
Marta Zakrzewska’s award symposium
On 21 November 2025, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, we held a symposium celebrating our former PhD student Mart Zakrzewska. The event, titled “The Psychology of Disease,” explored how illness shapes thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and social interactions. The programme featured talks on: Why some individuals react strongly to everyday sensory stimulation […]
Olfactus 2026 — Hosted by Sci-Lab and the Perception & Psychophysics Division
The 2026 Olfactus Conference—a full day of talks and discussions led by Swedish olfactory and chemosensory researchers—will be hosted by Sci-Lab and the Division of Perception & Psychophysics. Planning is underway, and more information will be shared as it becomes available.
New paper out: Olfactory spatial memory: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Recently our team published a new paper titled “Olfactory spatial memory: a systematic review and meta-analysis” in Scientific Reports. In the article, we summarized the current state of knowledge on olfactory spatial memory in humans. Four key results emerged: First, odors can be used as landmarks in the formation of neuro-cognitive maps in both sensory […]
New Research Assistant
Billy joins us, working as a research assistant to help with running Thomas Hörberg’s project: ”Building a cross-cultural semantic framework for odor vocabularies.” Billy has a PhD in psychology from Stockholm University, on the neural correlates of consciousness in hearing, using EEG.
New article published
A new paper from the lab has been published in Chemical Senses today. Free odor identification engages domain-general cognitive abilities in old adults, by Thomas Hörberg, Rohan Raj and Jonas Olofsson (et. al.) and investigates odor identification and cognitive aging. Find it here: https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjaf049
Two new grants awarded from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Today Riksbankens Jubileumsfond released accepted applications for their project grants. Both Malina Szychowska’s and Thomas Hörberg’s applications were accepted and will receive funding for the next three years. Malina Szychowska for the project: Sensory competition in spatial memory. Thomas Hörberg for the project: Building a cross-cultural semantic framework for odor vocabularies.
Opinion Piece in Dagens Nyheter
On Sunday, Jonas Olofsson and Håkan Fischer, professors of Psychology at Stockholm University, published an opinion article in the leading Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter. They warn about the risks of the one-sided focus on natural sciences, technology and medicine in the Swedish government research strategy. They recommend harnessing insights from psychology, social sciences and humanities […]
Dr Stephen Pierzchajlo successfully defended his thesis
Our now former PhD Candidate Stephen Pierzchajlo successfully defended his dissertation Smelling Without A Smell: How olfactory-perceptual representations are activated by words. Abstract: We spend every day using our senses to interact with the world. Though we use language as a way to understand the sensory world, language might have different roles for different senses. […]