Inlägg av SCI-lab-admin

New article published – testing the ability of language models to capture olfactory information.

juli 16, 2025 i , /av

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 […]

New article published – Reveals sensory asymmetry in spatial memory for smells and sounds.

juni 5, 2025 i , /av

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 on BBC Start of the Week

maj 5, 2025 i /av

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 teaches at FLAVOURsome in Dresden

april 11, 2025 i , /av

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

mars 17, 2025 i , /av

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

mars 4, 2025 i , /av

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”

februari 18, 2025 i /av

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).