Sense of Smell Relies on Predictive Coding More Than Vision

A new study has shifted the perspective on how our senses process information, revealing that our sense of smell is more predictive and sophisticated than previously thought.

Contrary to the common belief that smell…

Yes, our sense of smell is weak. But it compensates for its limited brain real estate by interacting with other senses. Stockholm University researchers share surprising insights
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How does your brain make scents of the world? New study reveals surprising reliance on cross-sensory cues.

#neuroscience #sensoryprocessing #ScienceTwitter
Published in SfN Journals Research by Stephen Pierzchajlo Jonas Olofsson Stockholm University
Coverage by Amielle Moreno PhD.
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What happens if we see a picture of a lemon but get to smell a rose? In a new study, Stephen Pierzchajlo and Jonas Olofsson show that our sense of smell is largely influenced by cues from other senses such as our sight and hearing.

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🚨Check out our new preprint 'The convergence between defence and care in mammals' PsyArXiv with Andreas Olsson 🧵
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I have been informed that I am being replaced as the Editor in Chief of eLife - the journal for retweeting a The Onion piece that calls out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians.

Our eLife - the journal paper (with Andreas Olsson) on the role of the defensive circuitry in helping behaviour has been covered by Público (article in Portuguese).👇

Super happy to see our paper 'Acute anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with higher levels of everyday altruism' rdcu.be/cYTWh finally published at Scientific Reports. With Stephen Pierzchajlo Simon Jangard Abigail Marsh and Andreas Olsson 🧵

Will the next generation of video games be based on #smell ? Our team has developed the first hand-held, high-precision smell machine for #VirtualReality doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhc…

Does anyone know of a good and up-to-date estimate for the NUMBER of people globally who lost their sense of smell due to COVID-19? (i.e. not the proportion of infected who get the symptom)

Our new study - headed by Joana B Vieira - shows that defensive brain circuits promote helping under threat in humans.
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📢Check out our new preprint 'Help or flight: Neural defensive circuits promote helping under threat in humans' bioRxiv Neuroscience, with Andreas Olsson.
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P-values from one-sample t-test from 10.000 simulations where the null hypothesis is true. At which point does the p start to 'trend towards significance'?

Great overview of fear responses, altruism and how they come together by Joana B Vieira in this weeks podcast episode (in English). The rest of the episode is in Swedish and is just as good with Philip Pärnamets! open.spotify.com/show/16oXOYDMk…

If you are attending #ECNP2021 , come by session S.14 ‘Novel approaches to understand the social brain' on Monday! I will be presenting some exciting new results about the neural basis of helping behaviour under threat (with Andreas Olsson) #ECNPtweets

Times Higher Education published its annual University Ranking – THE 2022

THE, QS, and Shanghai are three main uni rankings that largely drive the funding of academia in many countries

🧐 THE 2022 weights in citations to acad papers heavily and directly

It is problematic

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A taxonomy of #bias types.

I would also add #Reportingbias , arising when dissemination of research findings is influenced by the nature and direction of results, e.g., statistically significant, ‘positive’ results are more likely to be published.

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#Statistics
#ML

sci-hub.do domain was banned, use sci-hub.ru instead

Thank goodness, hopefully this will prevent people learning that Sci-Hub which hosts 85 million scientific research papers. Absolutely do not search Google for sci-hub to gain access to 85 million scientific research papers for free. Don't retweet this. Piracy is wrong.