Our Unique Sense of Smell is a research program investigating olfaction, our evolutionarily oldest sensory system.
Our Unique Sense of Smell is research program investigating olfaction, our evolutionarily oldest sensory system. Our goal is to increase understanding of how the sense of smell is cognitively processed. The program is funded by a generous $3.7 million (SEK 26M) grant from the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (Riksbankens Jubeliumsfond). This is one of the largest grants in the history of Swedish psychology. To learn more, please visit our website at www.humanolfaction.org.
12/10/2020
Så förstör coronaviruset lukt- och smaksinne Många har vittnat om att smak- och luktsinnet har försvunnit, efter att de har varit sjuka i covid-19. Eller fått tillbaka det – förändrat. En ny studie undersöker varför.
Var med i vår enkätstudie om covid-19!
Vi medverkar i en stor internationell studie av covid-19 och hur människor uppfattar och reagerar på olika budskap. Vi har också inkluderat frågor om doftsinnet och hur lukter påverkar oss. Forskningen kan bidra till att vi får en bättre kommunikation under pandemier. Klicka på länken nedan, så kommer du till enkäten där du får mer information. Alla deltagare får en trisslott (skickad via e-mail) som tack för hjälpen!
18/08/2020
AbScent Events Events given for and by the AbScent community for those with smell loss and those interested in smell training.
31/03/2020
Our new work, led by postdoc Thomas Hörberg, was published today in Cerebral Cortex: We found that when information from the eyes and nose compete for attention, the nose wins, challenging the old idea that vision dominates in sensory perception:
Olfactory Influences on Visual Categorization: Behavioral and ERP Evidence Abstract. Visual stimuli often dominate nonvisual stimuli during multisensory perception. Evidence suggests higher cognitive processes prioritize visual over n
27/02/2020
Fellowships for ISOT 2020 in Portland
WIOS is supporting four young researchers with travel fellowships to ISOT 2020 (19-24 June, Portland, Oregon)!
If you are a junior researchers (up to 7 years after obtaining their PhD or MD), an active advocate for female scientists, diversity and equality, hold a membership in one of the societies (AChemS - Association for Chemoreception Sciences, ECRO, JASTS), and if you are planning to attend we are looking forward to your submission!
For more details have a look at the file attached to this post. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us.
Your WIOS Executive Committee (Veronika Schöpf, Valentina Parma, Sanne Boesveldt-de Gier)
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04/02/2020
Ny forskning om blindas och seendes minnesfunktioner!
Blinda och seende minns på samma sätt - Stockholms universitet Kan lukter och ljud framkalla minnen på samma sätt för blinda som hos seende? Ja, enligt en ny studie av forskare vid Psykologiska institutionen som också visar att lukter framkallar en större andel barndomsminnen än ljud. Det här tyder på att synen inte spelar någon avgörande roll för hu...
07/01/2020
Autobiographical memories evoked by odors in blind people also originate from childhood and thus do not differ from what is known from sighted individuals! New findings from the research program "Our Unique Sense of Smell".
The reminiscence bump is blind to blindness: Evidence from sound- and odor-evoked autobiographical memory The reminiscence bump is the disproportionally high reporting of autobiographical memories from adolescence and early adulthood and is typically obser…
26/11/2019
We are looking for a postdoc with computational skills, a few days left to apply! Please distribute to anyone who might be interested and qualified:
15/11/2019
01/05/2019
Routine sense of smell tests could be used to spot signs of dementia Impaired smell in later life can be an early warning of neurodegenerative and heart diseases, research suggests