Marta Zakrzewska’s award symposium

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On 21 November 2025, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, we held a symposium celebrating our former PhD student Mart Zakrzewska.

The event, titled “The Psychology of Disease,” explored how illness shapes thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and social interactions.

The programme featured talks on:

  • Why some individuals react strongly to everyday sensory stimulation (Linus Andersson)

  • The different faces of feeling sick (Julie Lasselin)

  • Sex differences in pathogen disgust from an evolutionary perspective (Marco Tullio Liuzza)

  • How olfaction relates to social attitudes and prejudice (Marta Zakrzewska)

The symposium concluded with the award ceremony of the 2024 Young Researcher in Psychology Prize.

Marta’s award symposium

 

Olfactus 2026 — Hosted by Sci-Lab and the Perception & Psychophysics Division

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The 2026 Olfactus Conference—a full day of talks and discussions led by Swedish olfactory and chemosensory researchers—will be hosted by Sci-Lab and the Division of Perception & Psychophysics.

Planning is underway, and more information will be shared as it becomes available.

 

 

SweCog conference 2025

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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!

SCI-Lab at Neuroimaging Methods Symposium (NEMES) 2025

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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

Thomas Hörberg at ECRO 2025

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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.

SCI-LAB contributed at ISOT 2024

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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).

SCI-lab goes to the ISOT conference in Reykavik

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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 Reykjavik and share our latest research!

Murathan’s presents at ECRO symposium

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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

Murathan Karfali explained chatGPT and AI at the Psychology department´s conference!

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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!