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Michał Pieniak

@mpieniak.bsky.social

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Assistant professor at the Institute of Psychology, Uni of Wrocław | Studying human sense of smell

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Michał Pieniak @mpieniak.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

The paper is available in open access: doi.org/10.1093/cerc...

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Michał Pieniak @mpieniak.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

No changes were observed in the control group, who underwent odorless training. Overall, our results suggest that in healthy individuals, smell training can influence cortical processing of odors, but the effects are likely odor-specific.

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Michał Pieniak @mpieniak.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

We investigated how 12 weeks of smell training affect cortical responses to odors in healthy adults using EEG. Participants who completed the training showed faster cortical responses to the odor they trained with, but not to untrained odor.

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Michał Pieniak @mpieniak.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Our new paper has just been published in Cerebral Cortex 🧠

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S. Craig Roberts @scraigroberts.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

We are advertising for a postdoc with skills in psychophysiological measurement for a project on smell and emotions. Closing date is 30th October. Please spread the word. www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

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Vacancy details | About | University of Stirling

Job vacancy at the University of Stirling.

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Michał Pieniak @mpieniak.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

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Michał Pieniak @mpieniak.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Additionally, we retested a few participants 1.5 years after the training completion. We found that 9 out of 10 participants became specifically anosmic again, what shows that in the case of specific anosmia, the smell training effects are only transient.

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Michał Pieniak @mpieniak.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

We found that after two months of a systematic smell training, most of the participants gained sensitivity to odors they were unable to detect at baseline.

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Michał Pieniak @mpieniak.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Our new paper on olfactory plasticity has just been published in Cortex 🧵 Some people with a healthy sense of smell are unable to perceive a few selected odors, a phenomenon known as specific anosmia. We checked if people can gain some perception of these smells via training.

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Michał Pieniak @mpieniak.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I genuinely enjoyed The Forgotten Sense by Jonas Olofsson. It covers multiple areas of smell research in an engaging way, making it a great read for both experts and those just discovering the field. Congratulations @jokriolo.bsky.social!

Picture of a book „The forgotten sense. The new science of smell and the extraordinary power of the nose” by Jonas Olofsson.

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Michal Misiak @misiakmichal.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Can babies tell good from evil? With 1000+ babies, we tried replicating classic moral psychology finding that infants prefer helpful characters. But... babies chose randomly between helper/hinderer puppets:/ Props to KelseyLucca, Francis Yuen & @jkileyhamlin.bsky.social for leading the project!

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Michał Pieniak @mpieniak.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Excited to share that starting December, I’ll be switching my role at the Institute of Psychology, University of Wrocław, to an assistant professor. Looking forward to this new chapter!

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