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.
Marta Zakrzewska, who defended her PhD thesis last year, was selected for the best PhD thesis award at the Department of Psychology. Marta is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Karolinska Institute and the lab of professor Mats J. Olsson. Congratulations Marta!
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
The PI of the SCI-lab, Jonas Olofsson was awarded the AChemS Young Investigator Award for Research in Olfaction or Nasal Chemoreception by the Association for Chemoreception Sciences! The award is given to “an outstanding junior scientist whose research record should provide evidence of excellence and contributions that have had or are likely to have a major impact on research in the field of olfaction”. Jonas would like to thank all members of the SCI-lab, past and present for their excellent research contributions.
New SCI-Lab paper! Rohan Rajs work explains odor identification results with help from language models and human estimations. This work, which was recently published in Cognition, might help developing better odor assessments to detect early stage dementia.
Find ”Odor identification errors reveal cognitive aspects of age-associated smell loss” here.
Marta Zakrzewska, who recently graduated as a PhD from the lab and is now a postdoc at Karolinska Institute, found that body odor disgust sensitivity is associated with xenophobia across the world. This pre-registered research was recently published in Royal Society Open Science.
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).
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