A new article from the Lab has been published in Cognitive Science! The article’s full title is ”A Rose by Another Name? Odor Misnaming is Associated with Linguistic Properties” and is about the work lead by Thomas Hörberg and Murathan Kurfali. Abstract: Naming common odors is a surprisingly difficult task: Odors are frequently misnamed. Little […]
The SCI-Lab recently participated in the International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste (ISOT) in Reykjavik, June 22-26. Jonas Olofsson and William Fredborg delivered oral presentations in the symposium ”Working Memory in the Chemical Senses”. Meanwhile, Nira Cedres, Malina Szychowska, and Samet Albayrak presented their posters, receiving much positive feedback. We were proud to share our […]
During the spring, we have had two guest interns from Università ”Magna Græcia” di Catanzaro. Arianna Spatafora and Francesca Vozzo have been assisting us in our research projects and data collection – we wouldn´t have made it without them! We wish them the best and great fortune in whatever they do next!
The SCI-Lab is attending the International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste (ISOT) in Reykavik, Iceland, on June 22-26. Five members are representing the lab. Jonas Olofsson and William Fredborg will have oral presentations in the “Working memory in the chemical senses” session, and Nira Cedres, Malina Szychowska and Samet Albayrak will have poster presentations. We […]
Sci-Lab is part of the Perception & Psykophysics division of Stockholm university’s Psychology Department. As part of a visit to the University dignitaries from South African Universities visited our Division to see and try-out our lab resources. We had a fun time demonstrating our ”toys” and we hope they had a fun time too! […]
Our article Olfactory categorization is shaped by a transmodal cortical network for evaluating perceptual predictions has been early released in JNeuroSci! Abstract: Creating and evaluating predictions are considered important features in sensory perception. Little is known about processing differences between the senses and their cortical substrates. Here, we tested the hypothesis that olfaction, the sense […]
Petter Kallioinen successfully defended his phD thesis today! The defense was in Lund, were Petter has been phD-student and on Zoom. Petter has been part of our Lab in the capacity of phD-student for some time, as Jonas Olofsson has been his co-supervisor. find his thesis here!
Anandi Hattiangadi, professor of Philosophy of Mind and Language, came and gave a great talk on LLM AI titled ”Why large language models don’t understand natural language”.