In order to determine whether there is a “universal” olfactory-semantic space, this project investigates semantic differences and similarities between vocabularies used to describe odors in culturally diverse languages.

This project provides a review of research on mental models in driving and their practical implications.

How does the brain enable us to experience something consciously? This question has been studied extensively in vision, but it is unclear whether the mechanisms are similar for hearing.

With an aging population, an increasing number of older individuals stands at risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. This raises the need for reliable, inexpensive, and non-invasive screening tools to identify dementia at an early stage, when interventions are maximally effective.

With a focus on inter individual distances; does the public know how actual exposure to an airborne virus varies with, e.g, variation of face to face distance and length of a conversation?

Using psychological tests and symptom scales in questionnaire form to make an initial assessment of symptoms and severity is common and valuable. However, constructing such tests so that they truly reflect the individual's feelings as accurately as possible is difficult.

The goal of this research environment, which is a cross-disciplinary collaboration between Stockholm university, The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE), is to understand the hierarchical contributions of chemical, mechanical, neural and psychological factors governing dynamic tactile perception.

Visual working memory is a core cognitive system that guides a large range of our behaviors, from basic perception and motor control to complex reasoning.

A fundamental question in psychology is how sensations interact with cognitive processes.

The project "What our brain knows from using our nose: Understanding the neural representations of odor memories" aims to discover how the human brain recognizes and identifies odors and how odors are linked to particular places.