The first Neuroimaging Methods Symposium (NEMES) is an event aiming to establish a network of neuroimaging experts across Swedish institutions. SCI-Lab made our presence with Malina Szychowska, William Fredborg and Teodor Jernsäther in attendance. The symposium featured talks from experts, neuroimaging workshops and focused discussions – with the collective aim to address key challenges, means […]
The European Chemoreception Research Organization (ECRO)’s yearly conference was in Bilbao, between the 15th – 18th September. Thomas Hörberg presented Evaluating language models potential for capturing odor-perceptual and odor-semantic information” at the ”AI in the Olfactory Science” symposium. He also presented a poster on Odor naming as a tool for cognitive assessment.
We extend our warm welcome to our latest intern Cecilia Salzmann from Zurich University! She will be with us until June 2026, and help us with our VR and MR projects.
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 […]