Johan Lundström
Assistant Member

Ph.D.
(Psychology; Uppsala University)

Research in my laboratory is concerned with basic research to achieve a better understanding of the cerebral basis for chemosensory processing. Several different lines of research are aimed at exploring how the human brain allows us to perceive, process, and understand chemosensory information. In particular, our lab is most concerned with the complex processing of social chemosignals – signals that border between perception and cognition. Our work covers a wide range of methodologies, including psychophysical and cognitive tests, functional brain imaging (event related potentials, positron emission tomography, and functional magnetic resonance imaging), and structural brain imaging and morphometry. Ultimately, our goal is to understand how the human brain processes the thousands of different chemosensory stimuli that we are surrounded by every day, and maybe, be able to answer how we perceive them and why we perceive them differently depending on the contextual situation.