PUBLICATIONS
2022
Pierzchajlo, S., & Olofsson, J.K. (in press). Human Olfaction: A view from the top. In Mroczko-Wasowics, A., & Grush, R., Sensory Individuals: Contemporary Perspectives on Modality-specific and Multimodal Perceptual Objects, Oxford University Press.
Dorison, C., Lerner, J., Heller, B.H (and 446 others, including Olofsson, J.K.; 2022). In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: Experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective Science, in press.
Olofsson, J.K., Ekesten, F., & Nordin, S. (2022). Olfactory distortions in the general population. Scientific Reports, in press.
Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration (including Olofsson, J.K.; 2022). A global experiment on motivating social distacing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in press.
2021
Dintica, C., Haaksma, M.L., Olofsson, J.K., Bennett, D.A., Xu, W. (2021). Joint trajectories of episodic memory and odor identification in older adults: Patterns and determinants. Aging, 13, 17080-17096.
Pellegrino, R., Hörberg, T., Olofsson, J.K., & Luckett, C. R. (2021). Duality of smell: Route-dependent effects on olfactory perception and language. Chemical Senses, published online May 19.
Wang, K., Goldenberg, A., Dorison, C.A., (and 446 others, including Olofsson, J.K.; 2021). A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 1089-1110.
Niedenthal, S., Nilsson, J., Jernsäther, T., Cuartilles, D., Larsson, M., & Olofsson, J.K. (2021). A method for computerized olfactory assessment and training outside of laboratory and clinical settings. i-Perception, published online June 11.
Zhou, G., Olofsson, J.K., Koubeissi, M.Z., Menelaou, G., Rosenow, J., Schuele, S.U., Xu, P., Voss, J., Lane, G., & Zelano, C. (2021). The human hippocampal network includes primary olfactory cortex, but not other primary sensory cortices. Progress in Neurobiology, in press.
Gerkin, R.C., Ohla, K., Veldhuizen, M.G, (and 69 others, including Olofsson, J. K.; 2021). Recent smell loss is the best predictor of COVID-19 among individuals with recent respiratory symptoms. Chemical Senses, published online December 28, 2020.
Jones, B.C., DeBruine, L.M., Flake, J.K., (and 277 others, including Olofsson, J.K.; 2021). To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply? Nature Human Behavior, published online January 5, 2021.
Olofsson, J.K., Nordin, S., Ekström, I., & Larsson, M. (2021) Olfaction and aging: A review of the urrent state of research and future directions. i-Perception, published online June 24.
Syrjänen, E., Fisher, H., Liuzza, MT., Lindholm, T., & Olofsson, J.K. (2021). A review of the effects of valenced odors on face perception and evaluation. i-Perception, published online April 28.
Olofsson, J.K., & Pierzchajlo, S. (2021). Olfactory language: Context is everything. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(6), 419-420.
2020
Olofsson, J.K., Ekström, I., Lindström, J., Syrjänen, E., Stigsdotter-Neely, A., Nyberg, L., Jonsson, S., & Larsson, M. (2020). Smell-based memory training: Evidence of olfactory learning and transfer to the visual domain. Chemical Senses, published online July 9, 2020.
Parma, V., Ohla, K., Veldhuizen, M.G, (and 91 others, including Olofsson, J. K.; 2020). More than smell: COVID-19 is associated with severe impairment of smell, taste and chemisthesis. Chemical Senses, published online June 20, 2020.
Hörberg, T., Larsson, M., Ekström, I., Sandöy, C., Lundén, P., & Olofsson, J.K. (2020). Olfactory categorization effects visual processing: Behavioral and ERP evidence. Cerebral Cortex, 30, 4220-4237.
Zakrzewska, M., Liuzza, M.T., Lindholm, T., Blomqvist, A., Larsson, M., & Olofsson, J.K. (2020) An overprotective nose? Implicit bias is related to individual differences in body odor disgust sensitivity. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 301.
Olofsson, J.K., Larsson, M., Roa, C., Wilson, D.A., & Jonsson-Laukka, E. (2020). Interaction between odor identification deficit and ApoE-e4 predicts 6-year cognitive decline in elderly individuals. Behavior Genetics, 50, 3-13.
White, T.L., Thomas-Danguin, T., Olofsson, J.K., Zucco, G.M., & Prescott, J. (2020) Thought for food: Cognitive influences on chemosensory perceptions and preferences. Food Quality and Preference, 79, 103776.
2019
Palmquist, E., Larsson, M., Olofsson, J.K., & Jonsson-Laukka, E. (2019). A prospective study on risk factors for olfactory dysfunction in aging. Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences, 75, 603-610.
Olofsson, J.K., Zhou, G., East, B., Zelano, C. & Wilson, D.A. (2019). Odor identification in rats: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence of learned olfactory-auditory associations. eNeuro, 6, 1-12.
Niedenthal, S., Lundén, P., Ehrndal, M., & Olofsson, J.K. (2019). A handheld olfactory display for smell-enabled VR games. IEEE International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose (ISOEN), Fukuoka, Japan, 1-4.
Syrjänen, S., Fischer, H., & Olofsson, J.K. (2019). Background odors affect behavior in a dot-probe task with emotionally expressive faces. Physiology & Behavior, 210, 112540.
Zhou, G., Lane, G., Noto, T., Arabkheradmand, G., Gottfried, J.A., Schuele, S.U., Rosenow, J.M., Olofsson, J.K., Wilson, D.A., Zelano, C. (2019). Human olfactory-auditory integration requires phase synchrony between sensory cortices. Nature Communications, 10, 1168.
Morquecho-Campos, P., Larsson, M., Boesveldt, S., & Olofsson, J.K. (2019). Achieving olfactory expertise: Training for transfer in odor identification. Chemical Senses, 44, 197-203.
Liuzza, M.T., Olofsson, J.K., Cancino-Montecinos, S., & Lindholm T. (2019). Body odor disgust sensotivity predicts stronger moral harshness towards moral violations of purity. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 458.
Zakrzewska, M., Olofsson, J.K., Lindholm T., Blomkvist, A., & Liuzza, M.T. (2019). Body odor disgust sensitivity is associated with prejudice towards a fictive group of immigrants. Physiology & Behavior, 201, 221-227.
Olofsson, J.K., & Freiherr, J. (2019) Neuroimaging of Smell and Taste. In M. Parkinson and R.L. Doty, Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Elsevier, 164, 263-282.
2018
Ekström, I., Josefsson, M., Larsson, M., Rönnlund, M., Nordin, S., & Olofsson, J.K. (2018). Subjective olfactory loss in older adults concurs with long-term odor identification decline. Chemical Senses, 44, 105-112.
Olofsson, J.K., Syrjänen, E., Ekström, I., Larsson, M., & Wiens, S. (2018). ‘Fast’ vs ‘slow’ word integration of visual and olfactory objects: EEG biomarkers of decision speed variability. Behavioral Neuroscience, 132, 587-594.
Syrjänen, E., Wiens, S., Fischer, H., Zakrzewska, M., Wartel, A., Larsson, M. & Olofsson, J.K. (2018) Background odors modulate N170 component and perception of emotional face stimuli. Frontiers in Psychology, 9.
Iatropoulos, G.,Herman, P., Lansner, A., Karlgren, J., Larsson, M., & Olofsson, J. K. (2018). The language of smell: Connecting linguistic and psychophysical properties of odor descriptors. Cognition, 178, 37-49.
East, B., Fleming, G., Peng, K., Olofsson, J. K., Levy, E., Matthews, P. Wilson, D.A (2018). Human apolipoprotein E genotype differentally affects olfactory behavior and sensory physiology in mice. Neuroscience, 380, 103-110.
Liuzza, M.T., Lindholm, T., Hawley, C. B., Sendén, M., Ekström, I., Olsson, M.J., & Olofsson, J.K. (2018). Body odor disgust sensitivity predicts authoritarian attitudes, Royal Society Open Science, 5, 170191.
Andersson, L., Sandberg, P., Olofsson, J., & Nordin, S. (2018). Effects of task demands on olfactory, auditory and visual event-related potentials suggest similar top-down modulation across senses. Chemical Senses, 43, 129-134.
Olofsson, J.K., & Wilson, D.A. (2018). Human olfaction: It takes two villages. Current Biology, 28, R108-R110.
2017
Piech, R.M., Strelchuk, D., Knights, J., Hjälmheden, J.V., Olofsson, J. K., Aspell, J.E. (2017) People with higher interoceptive sensitivity are more altruistic, but improving interoception does not increase altruism. Scientific Reports 7, 15652.
Syrjänen, E., Liuzza, M.T., Fischer, H., & Olofsson, J.K. (2017) Do valenced odors and trait body odor disgust affect evaluation of dynamic faces? Perception, 46, 1412-1426.
Josefsson, M., Larsson, M., Nordin, S., Adolfsson, R., & Olofsson, J.K. (2017). APOE-ɛ4 effects on longitudinal decline in olfactory and non-olfactory cognitive abilities in middle-aged and old adults. Scientific Reports, 7, 1286.
Tullio Liuzza, M., Olofsson, J.K., Sabiniewicz, A., & Sorokowska, A. (2017). Body odor trait disgust predicts perception of sweat bio-samples. Chemical Senses, 42, 479-485.
Olofsson, J.K., Niedenthal, S., Ehrndal, M., Zakrzewska, M., Wartel, A. & Larsson, M. (2017). Beyond Smell-O-Vision: Possibilities for smell-based digital media. Simulation & Gaming, 48, 455-479.
Ekström, I., Sjölund, S., Nordin, S., Nordin Adolfsson, A., Adolfsson, R., Larsson, M., & Olofsson, J.K. (2017) Smell loss predicts mortality risk irrespective of dementia conversion. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 65, 1238-1243.
Sjölund, S., Larsson, M., Olofsson, J.K., Seubert, J., & Laukka, E. J. (2017). Phantom smells: Prevalence and correlates in a population-based sample of older adults. Chemical Senses, 42, 309-318.
Lundström, J.N., Arshamian, A., & Olofsson, J.K. (2017). Twenty shades of chemosensory perception. Perception, 46, 241-244.
2016
Tullio Liuzza, M., Lindholm, T., Hawley, C., Gustafsson Sendén, M., Ekström, I., Olsson, M.J. & Olofsson, J.K. (2016). The Body Odor Disgust Scale (BODS): Development and validation of a novel olfactory disgust assesment. Chemical Senses, 42, 499-508.
Olofsson, J.K., Josefsson, M., Ekström, I., Wilson, D., Nyberg, L., Nordin, S., Nordin Adolfsson, A., Adolfsson, R., Nilsson, L-G., & Larsson, M. (2016). Long-term episodic memory decline is associated with olfactory deficits only in carriers of ApoE-e4. Neuropsychologia, 85, 1-9.
Kallioinen, P., Olofsson, J., Nakeva von Mentzer, C., Lindgren, M., Ors, M., Sahlén, B.S., Lyxell, B., Engström, E., & Uhlen, I. (2016) Semantic processing in deaf and hard-of-hearing children: Large N400 mismatch effects in brain responses, despite poor semantic ability. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1146.
Kubik, V., Olofsson, J. K., Jönsson, F. U. Nilsson, L-G. (2016). Putting action memory to the test: testing affects restudy but not forgetting of action events. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 28, 209-219.
2015
Olofsson, J.K., & Gottfried, J.A (2015). Reply to Majid: Cultural and neurocognitive perspectives are complementary. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19, 630-631.
Olofsson, J.K., & Gottfried, J.A (2015). The muted sense: Neurocognitive limitations of olfactory language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19, 314-321.
Kubik, V., Nilsson, L.-G., Olofsson, J. K., & Jönsson, F. U. (2015). Testing effects on subsequent re-encoding and forgetting of action phrases. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 56, 475-481.
2014
Stanciu, I., Larsson, M., Nordin, S., Adolfsson, R., Nilsson, L-G., & Olofsson, J.K. (2014) Olfactory impairment and subjective olfactory complaints independently predict conversion to dementia: A longitudinal, population-based study. Journal of the international Neuropsychological Society, 20, 1-9.
Olofsson, J.K., Hurley, R., Bowman, N., Bao, X., Mesulam, M-M. & Gottfried, J.A. (2014) An odor-language integration system in the human brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 34: 14864-14873.
Olofsson, J.K. (2014). Time to smell: A cascade model of human olfactory perception based on response-time (RT) measurement. Frontiers in Psychology, 5.
Earlier publications
Olofsson, J.K., Bowman, N., & Gottfried, J.A. (2013) High and low roads to odor valence? A response-time study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39, 1205-1211.
Olofsson, J.K., Rogalski, E., Harrison, T., Mesulam, M-M., & Gottfried, J.A. (2013). A cortical pathway to odor naming: Evidence from primary progressive aphasia. Brain, 136, 1245-1259.
Olofsson, J.K., Bowman, N., Khatibi, K., & Gottfried, J.A (2012). A time-based account of odor object and valence perception. Psychological Science, 23, 1224-1232.
Nordin, S., Andersson, L., Olofsson, J.K., McCormack, M., & Polich, J. (2011) Evaluation of auditory, visual and olfactory event-related potentials for comparing interspersed- and single-stimulus paradigms. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 81, 252-262.
Cornell-Kärnekull, S., Jönsson, F.U., Larsson, M., & Olofsson, J.K. (2011) Affected by smells? Personality and chemical responsivity predicts odor perception. Chemical Senses, 36, 641-648.
Olofsson, J.K., Gospic, K., Petrovic, P., Ingvar, M., & Wiens, S. (2011). Effects of oxazepam on affective perception, recognition and event-related potentials. Psychopharmacology, 215, 301-309.
Wiens, S., Sand, A., & Olofsson, J.K. (2011) Nonemotional features suppress early and enhance late electrocortical responses to negative pictures. Biological Psychology, 86, 83-89.
Hedner, M., Nilsson, L-G., Olofsson, J.K., Eriksson, E., Bergman, O, Nyberg, L., & Larsson, M. (2010) Age-related olfactory decline is associated with the BDNF val66met polymorphism: Evidence from a population-based study. Frontiers of Aging Neuroscience, 2, 24.
Olofsson, J.K., Nordin, S., Wiens, S., Hedner, M., Nilsson, L-G., & Larsson, M. (2010) Odor identification impairment in elderly ApoE-ε4 carriers is independent of dementia. Neurobiology of Aging, 31, 567-577.
Olofsson, J.K., Rönnlund, M., Nordin, S., Nilsson, L-G., Nyberg, L., & Larsson, M. (2009) Odor identification deficit as a predictor of five-year global cognitive change: Interactive effects with age and ApoE-ε4. Behavior Genetics, 39, 496-503.
Larsson, M., Hedner, M., & Olofsson, J.K. (2009) Differential age and sex effects in semantic recognition of odors and words. Acta Psychologica Sinica, 41, 1049-1053.
Aminoff, E.M., Balslev, D., Borroni, P., Bryan, R.E., Chua, E.F., Cloutier, J., Cross, E.S., Drew, T., Funk, C.M., Gil-da-Costa, R., Guerin, S.A., Hall, J.L., Jordan, K.E., Landau, A.N., Molnar-Szakacs, I., Montaser-Kouhsari, L., Olofsson, J.K., Quadflieg, S., Somerville, L.H., Sy, J.L., Uddin, LQ., Yamada, M. (2009) The landscape of cognitive neuroscience: Challenges, rewards, and new perspectives. In M.D. Gazzaniga (Ed.) The Cognitive Neurosciences, fourth edition, Cambridge: MIT Press. (Authors listed in alphabetical order).
Arshamian, A., Olofsson, J.K., Jönsson, F.U., & Larsson, M. (2008) Sniff your way to clarity: the case of olfactory imagery. Chemosensory Perception, 242-246.
Olofsson, J.K., Nordin, S., Sequeira, H., & Polich, J. (2008) Affective picture processing: An integrative review of event-related potential findings. Biological Psychology, 77, 247-265.
Olofsson, J.K., Ericsson, E., & Nordin, S. (2008) Comparison of chemosensory, auditory, and visual event-related potential amplitudes. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 49, 231-237.
Rozenkrants, B., Olofsson, J.K., & Polich, J. (2008) Affective visual event-related potentials: arousal, valence, and repetition effects. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 67, 114-123.
Brämerson, A., Millqvist, E., Ydse, B., Larsson, C., Olofsson, J.K., & Bende, M. (2008) Event-related potentials in patients with olfactory loss. Acta Oto-Laryngologica, 2, 1-6.
Ericsson, E., Olofsson, J.K., Nordin, S., Rudolfsson, T., & Sandström, G. (2008) Is the P600/SPS affected by the richness of semantic content? A linguistic ERP study in Swedish. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 49, 1-9.
Olofsson, J.K., & Polich, J. (2007). Affective visual event-related potentials: Arousal, repetition, and time-on-task. Biological Psychology, 75, 101-108.
Olofsson, J.K., Broman, D.A., Gilbert, P.E., Dean, P., Nordin, S., & Murphy, C. (2006). Laterality of the olfactory event-related potential response. Chemical Senses, 31, 699-704.
Nordin, S., Martinkauppi, M., Olofsson, J., Hummel, T., Millqvist, E., & Bende, M. (2005). Chemosensory perception and event-related potentials in self-reported chemical hypersensitivity. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 55, 243-255.
Olofsson, J.K., Broman, D.A., Wulff, M., Martinkauppi, M., & Nordin, S. (2005). Olfactory and chemosomatosensory function in pregnant women assessed with event-related potentials. Physiology and Behavior, 1-2, 252-257.
Olofsson, J.K., & Nordin, S. (2004). Gender differences in chemosensory perception and event-related potentials. Chemical Senses, 29, 629-637.
Larsson, M., Nilsson, L-G., Olofsson, J.K., & Nordin, S. (2004). Demographic and cognitive predictors of odor identification: Evidence from a population-based study. Chemical Senses, 29, 547-554.
Nordin, S., Broman, D.A., Olofsson, J.K., & Wulff, M. (2004). A longitudinal descriptive study of self-reported abnormal smell and taste perception in pregnant women. Chemical Senses, 29, 391-402.
Thesis for the PhD
Elmeri Syrjänen (2020): The effects of valenced odors on facial perception
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