Petter Kallioinen successfully defended his phD thesis today!
Dr Petter Kallioinen
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.
Celebrations! Petter not pictured.
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!
Samet Albayrak
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 be used to explore sensory object´s memory, the cognitive functions and neurological representations. The project will combine Virtual Reality navigation testing and fMRI to enlighten our understanding of Human sensory navigation memory with smell, hearing and vision.
Malina Szychowska
We celebrated
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 the challenges of olfactory interaction.
Simon presents
Simon has been vital for the development of Nosewise (Olfactory display for VR) and Exerscent (Smell identification game for smell-training and testing).
Nosewise demonstration
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 book is in Swedish, the title translated is ”The underrated sense – About man’s unknown ability to perceive smells”. It popularizes our understanding of, and the remarkable aspects, of the human sense of smell.
Link to Publisher: https://www.nok.se/
From the release of ”Det underskattade sinnet”
Every year SCI-LAB take a retreat to plan and workshop the Lab’s progress. Previous retreats have focused on developing different skills and the Lab’s progress towards its targeets.
This year marked five years since the SCI-LAB was formed, and we focused on evaluating the Lab’s achievements during this time and to formulate new targets for the next five years!
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!
Jonas Olofsson was invited as keynote speaker to the annual Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium.
The title of his keynote was Using language to understand the sense of smell.
