Within the scope of the Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research (GCCR), Thomas Hörberg initiates a multilab research collaboration, encompassing over 30 laboratories in five different continents. The aim of the project is to investigate linguistic diversity in odor language and to build a cross-linguistic odor lexicon. Towards this aim, the laboratories involved in the project […]
In our most recent publication, Representations of smells: The next frontier for language models?, published in Cognition, we tested language models’ ability to capture olfactory-perceptual and olfactory semantic information. We trained three generations of language models, using around 200 training configurations and four different text corpora. We then evaluated these models against three different […]
We congratulates Marie Low, has received and accepted a PhD-position! She will be leaving the lab to join Tina Sundelin’s group (also at Stockholm University) in September 2025. Her phd-project will be about sleep and social behaviour.
Our new article, Asymmetric cross-sensory interference between spatial memories of sounds and smells revealed in a virtual reality environment was just published in Journal of experimental psychology: Learning, memory, and cognition. We used virtual reality (VR) technology, together with the VR-compatible olfactometer developed in our lab, to study spatial memory for smells and sounds during active […]
Jonas was interviewed about the ”underrated sense of smell” on BBC Start of the Week show, together with literary scholar Ally Louks and interaction researcher Alan Chalmers. Listen to it here: https://www.bbc.com/
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. […]
What is it like being a research assistant in cognitive neuroscience? How does your brain remember the locations of smells and sounds? How does your brain help you recognize emotions expressed by other people? Marie Low will be visiting schools on April 8 to tell students about psychology research, as part of the “Borrow a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Today is Frida’s last day at the SCI-lab! Frida is starting a PhD position at the Karolinska Institute as part of the the Aging Research Center (ARC), with Erika Jonsson Laukka and her research team. Thank you Frida for your great contributions to our work, and good luck in the future!