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Johan Lundstrom @odorjohan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Our latest paper in PLoS Biology was a great project. We show that the human olfactory system seems to code mainly odor perception (rated intensity), not physical properties (concentration). Fantastic work by @nordenneuro.bsky.social, @artinarshamian.bsky.social, Irene Zanettin, and Mikael Lundkvist

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Artin Arshamian @artinarshamian.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I told Gemini that it gave me a reference that doesn't exist (literately: "the paper XXX does not exist"). It started arguing back! I had to prove it back-and-forth four times (!!) before it admitted the error! Now it named our chat: "Fictional References Accusation" How disturbing is that?

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Artin Arshamian @artinarshamian.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

🧵Meet the Pupillary Respiratory-Phase Response (PRP): pupils constrict during inhalation and dilate during exhalation. It is the fourth known mechanism influencing pupil size, alongside the pupillary light, near fixation, and psychosensory responses.

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Artin Arshamian @artinarshamian.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Our pre-print is gaining some attention. Hope the paper and the upcoming perception studies do not disappoint😀 www.newscientist.com/article/2438...

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Your pupils change size as you breathe

Our pupils shrink and expand as we breathe in and out, but whether this affects vision is unclear

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Artin Arshamian @artinarshamian.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

1/5 Inhalation does not improve memory compared to exhalation - A cautionary tale. In the largest study to date (pre-registered, total n=214), we tested memory performance as function inhalation vs. exhalation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #neuroskyence

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<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library

Using a task that engages oscillatory activity-dependent visual memory (fast processing of natural images), we find that the natural breathing cycle does not have a significant impact on recognition ...

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 29/03/2024

Research shows breathing can change our exteroceptive & affective perception, but how? Pleased to share our latest study, led by my PhD student Malthe Brændholt w/ Daniel Kluger, where we investigated the cognitive mechanisms using computational modeling! 🧠📈 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Figure 1: schematic showing stimulus design, psychophysics, and assignment of respiratory phase.

figure 2: figure showing overview of heirarchical drift diffusion modelling and key parameter effects.

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Asifa Majid @asifamajid.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

One thing that's so fun about working on olfaction is the interdisciplinarity. An article in the Royal Society of Chemistry featuring our work on the cross-cultural perception of odor pleasantness. edu.rsc.org/feature/the-...

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The science behind the smell

What makes a bad smell smell bad? Sniff out the chemical culprits behind obnoxious odours

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Artin Arshamian @artinarshamian.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

How cool is this!? Interoception "in the" olfactory bulb via heartbeats. Let's test this in humans ASAP. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Artin Arshamian @artinarshamian.bsky.social · 14/03/2024

Here we show that the human olfactory bulb can detect metabolic state, as evidenced by its response to fasting. This method enables the use of odors to study metabolic changes in health and disease (e.g., in eating disorders). Use it! #neuroskyence www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Artin Arshamian @artinarshamian.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

Me: Draw a brain with the olfactory bulb and piriform cortex marked. ChatGpt: The illustration of the human brain with the olfactory bulb and piriform cortex marked is now available. Me: Yeah, it seems pretty reasonable. Thanks!

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Artin Arshamian @artinarshamian.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

1/2 Inhaling for sharper memories? Our new study reveals that phase-locked breathing (onset of inhale or exhale) does not directly impact visual memory performance: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... but...

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Daniel S. Kluger @danlikesbrains.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

The website for our WAVES '24 Summer School + Symposium in southern Italy now live - an entire week of hands-on body-brain tutorials from all branches of neuroscience. Students, PhD candidates, and everyone else can now register trough the link below. Happy to answer any questions! #neuroskyence

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Summer School and Neuroscience Symposium on Body-Brain Waves September 2024, Salerno, Italy WAVES '24 Promo video here. Body-Brain physiological Waves meet the waves of the Amalfi Coast During Waves'2...

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Daniel S. Kluger @danlikesbrains.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

The link between respiration and arousal is a bit more puzzling than widely assumed, as pointed out in the great review by non-blue Martin Schaefer and others from @odorjohan.bsky.social 's lab. Led by @ckeitelsci.bsky.social, we try to advance things a little with pupillometry. 🧠🟦 🧠🫁

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