This week SCI-Lab is attending the SweCog conference (7-9/10) in Lund.
https://konferens.ht.lu.se/swecog-2025/.
We will contribute 3 oral presentations, 1 poster presentation and 8 lab-members in attendance. We are looking forward to a great couple of days of interesting cognitive research and discussions!
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 for more robust and reproducible research and hands-on analysis workshops.
From the presentation ”Fundamentals of network theory”, by William Hedley Thompson, Gothenburg university
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.
The SCI-Lab recently participated in the International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste (ISOT) in Reykjavik, June 22-26. Jonas Olofsson and William Fredborg delivered oral presentations in the symposium ”Working Memory in the Chemical Senses”. Meanwhile, Nira Cedres, Malina Szychowska, and Samet Albayrak presented their posters, receiving much positive feedback. We were proud to share our findings on human cognition and olfaction with so many wonderful colleagues, and are grateful for the opportunity to discuss both our research and theirs with so many brilliant minds. The lab members also enjoyed Iceland’s rugged beauty, hot springs and culinary offerings (but not the fermented shark).
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 are looking forward to see our colleagues in and share our latest research!
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 imagination of odors rather than human odor perception. This research not only sheds light on the capabilities of Natural Language Processing in understanding olfaction but also highlights the potential use of AI models as valuable resources for researchers and practitioners in the field of olfaction.”
– Summary of abstract by ChatGPT-3.5
The abstract for the talk can be found here: https://coms.events/ecro2023/data/abstracts/en/abstract_0151.html
The Department of Psychology at Stockholm University had a two-day conference where AI was one of the themes.
Murathan introduced the AI seminar with his talk on What is ChatGPT!
The Olfactus 2023 conference was hosted by the SCI-lab and our colleagues at the Gösta Ekman Laboratory. In this intensive 1-day conference, 43 participants attended. There were 17 talks, mostly by junior researchers and students, on a wide variety of chemical senses research topics. Some pictures from the event are available on the Gösta Ekman Laboratory facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/gelstockholm
Jonas Olofsson has been invited as a keynote speaker at the Pangborn Sensory Symposium in Nantes, France (August 20-24).
Pangborn is an academic conference focusing on sensory science and consumer science (www.pangbornsymposium.com).
#Pangborn2023