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!
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).
Jonas wrote a piece for The Guardian’s ”The Big Idea” section about the importance of smell. From the article: Smell has an outsize effect on our thoughts and moods, so it’s worth paying more attention to it Find it at the Guardian here: Looking for a better life? Follow you nose
The Forgotten Sense is a research journey through the uncharted territory of human olfaction – smell. After having been dismissed by scientists and philosophers for centuries, the human sense of smell was rarely fully recognized for its sensitivity or importance for human well-being and psychology. During the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of us lost the smell […]