Johan Lundström

Assistant Member

Education

Ph.D., Psychology; Uppsala University, Sweden

Research Summary

My research is aimed toward a better understanding of the cerebral basis for chemosensory and multimodal processing. Several different lines of ongoing research explore how the human brain allows us to perceive, process, and understand chemosensory and multimodal information. In particular, our lab is concerned with the complex processing of social chemosignals, signals that act along the border between perception and cognition. Lately, we are also investigating the neuronal basis of multimodal processing using our chemical senses, a natural multimodal sensation, as a stepping board.

Keywords

neuroscience, biological psychology, sensation & perception, chemical communication, multimodal processing, brain imaging

Recent Publications

Velhuizen, M. G.; Albrect, J.; Zelano, C.; Boesveldt, S.; Breslin, P. A. S. and Lundström, J. N. (In Press) “Identification of human gustatory cortex by activation likelihood estimation.” Human Brain Mapping.

Lundström, J. N.; Boesveldt, S. and Albrecht, J. (2011) “Central processing of the chemical senses: An overview.” ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 2, 5-16.

Albrecht, J.; Kopietz, R.; Frasnelli, J.; Wiesmann, M.; Hummel, T.; Lundström, J. N. (2010) “The neuronal correlates of intranasal trigeminal function-an ALE meta-analysis of human functional brain imaging data.” Brain Research Reviews. 62, 183-96.

Boesveldt, S.; Olsson, M. J. and Lundström, J. N. (2010) “Carbon chain length and the stimulus problem in olfaction.” Behavioral Brain Research. 1, 110-3.

Boesveldt, S.; Frasnelli, J.; Gordon, A. R. and Lundström, J. N. (2010) “The fish is bad: negative food odors elicit faster and more accurate reactions than other odors.” Biological Psychology. 2, 313-7.

Frasnelli, J.; Lundström, J. N.; Boyle, J. A.; Djordjevic, J.; Zatorre, R. J. and Jones-Gotman, M. (2010) “Neuroanatomical correlates of olfactory performance.” Experimental Brain Research. 201, 1-11.

Lundström, J. N.; Gordon, A. R.; Albrecht, J; Alden, E. C. and Boesveldt, S. (2010) ”Methods for building an inexpensive computer-controlled olfactometer for temporally precise behavioral experiments.” International Journal of Psychophysiology. 83, 1-23.

Boyle, J. A.; Djordjevic, J.; Olsson, M. J.; Lundström, J. N. and Jones-Gotman, M. (2009) “The human brain distinguishes between single odorants and binary mixtures.” Cerebral Cortex. 19.1, 66-71.

Lundström, J. N.; Boyle, J. A.; Zatorre, R. J. and Jones-Gotman, M. (2009) “The neuronal substrates of human olfactory based kin recognition.” Human Brain Mapping. 30, 2571-80.

Lab Staff

Jessica Albrecht, PhD: Postdoctoral Fellow
Sanne Boesveldt, PhD: Postdoctoral Fellow
Amy Gordon, BA: Graduate Student
Eva Alden, BA: Senior Research Technician
Andrea Ponting: Research Technician