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”.
Samet Albayrak is a Turkish PHD-student, who visits SCI-LAB for a year. Here they will bring gustation research to us and do a multisensory perception project, which consider olfaction’s and vision’s interaction on taste and flavour integration!
Malina Szychowska, one of our postdocs in SCI-LAB, have received the news that her application ”Att navigera i det sensoriska landskapet: Hur våra sinnen formar rumsliga minnen” (”Navigating the Sensory Landscape: How Our Senses Shape Spatial Memories”) has been accepted! The grant is for three years and for a total of 5,054,000 sek and will […]
Professor Simon Niedenthal was recently promoted to Professor of Interaction Design. He is a long time collaborator with our Lab and together we have developed much of our smell training and testing equipment. In his presentation, Simon spoke about the current and past state of olfaction in interactive entertainment, such as movies and games, and […]
Murathan Kurfali held a presentation titled Investigating the relation between Semantic Space and Olfactory Perceptions using Language Models. He was choosen to be part of the Young Investigators symposium. ”In this presentation, Murathan explored how various language models, including ChatGPT, capture olfactory-semantic relationships. Findings reveal that large language models like ChatGPT tend to resemble human […]