Mats J. Olsson Professor, Ph.D Director of Graduate Studies Telephone: +46-(0)18-471 2150 Fax: +46-(0)18-471 2123 E-mail: Mats.Olsson@psyk.uu.se

Adress: Dept. of Psychology Uppsala University Box 1225 SE-751 42, Uppsala Sweden Get vCard Visiting adress: Trädgårdsgatan 20 Room A331

Areas of interest

The Olfactory Research Group at the Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, focuses on behavioral effects of human chemoreception. The overall aims are to understand how we perceive different odorants, and how these characteristics feed into later cognitive stages of processing, such as memory and metacognition. Moreover, we investigate how different steroids found in the human body (so-called pheromones) affect our mood, behavior, and physiology.

Publications

* denotes that first author is Dr. Olsson's student.

Berglund, B., & Olsson, M. J. (1993). Odor intensity interaction in a binary mixture. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 19, 302-314.

Berglund, B., & Olsson, M. J. (1993). Odor-intensity interaction in binary and ternary mixtures. Perception & Psychophysics, 53,475-482.

Olsson, M. J., Harder, K., & Baird, J. C. (1993). What Ekman really said. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16, 157-158.

Olsson, M. J. (1994). An interaction model for odor quality and intensity. Perception & Psychophysics, 55, 363-372.

Cain, W. S., Schiet, F. T., Olsson, M. J., & de Wijk, R. A. (1995). Comparison of models of odor interaction, Chemical Senses, 20, 625-637.

Baird, J. C., Berglund, B., & Olsson, M. J. (1996). Magnitude estimation of perceived odor intensity: Empirical and theoretical properties. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 22, 244-255.

Olsson, M. J. (1998). An integrated model of intensity and quality of odor mixtures. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 855, 837-840.

Olsson, M. J. (1999). Implicit testing of odor memory: Instances of positive and negative repetition priming. Chemical Senses, 24, 347-350.

Wise, P. M., Olsson, M. J., & Cain, W. S. (2000). Quantification of odor quality. Chemical Senses, 25, 429-443.

Olsson, M. J., & Cain, W. S. (2000). Psychometrics of odor quality discrimination: Method for threshold determination. Chemical Senses, 25, 493-499.

*Lundström, N. J., Olsson, M. J., & Larsson, M. (2000). Effects of the putative pheromone 4,16-androstadien-3-one on psychological and psychophysiological variables: Weak evidence. Chemical Senses, 25, 613-614.

Broman, D. A., Olsson, M. J. & Nordin, S. (2001). Lateralization of olfactory cognitive functions: Effects of rhinal side of stimulation. Chemical Senses, 26, 1187-1192.

Olsson, M. J., & Fridén, M. (2001). Evidence of odor priming: Edibility judgments are primed differently between the hemispheres. Chemical Senses, 26, 117-123.

Olsson, M. J., Faxbrink., M. & Jönsson, F. U. (2002). Repetition priming in odor memory. In C. Rouby, B. Schaal, D. Dubois, R. Gervais, & A. Holey (Eds.), Olfaction, taste, and cognition (pp. 246-260). London: Cambridge University Press.

Olsson, M. J. & Cain, W. S. (2003). Implicit and explicit memory for odors: Hemispheric differences. Memory & Cognition, 31, 44-50.

*Lundström, J. N., Goncalves, M., Esteves, F., & Olsson, M. J. (2003). Psychological effects of 4,16-androstadien-3-one. Hormones & Behavior. 44, 395-401. [PDF]

*Jönsson, F. U., & Olsson, M. J. (2003). Olfactory metacognition. Chemical Senses. 28, 651-658.

*Lundström, J. N., Hummel, T., Olsson, M. J. (2003). Individual differences in sensitivity to the odor of 4,16-Androstadien-3-one. Chemical Senses. 28, 643-650. [PDF]

*Jönsson, F. U., Olsson, H., and Olsson, M. J. (2005). Odor emotionality affects the confidence in odor naming. Chemical Senses, 30, 29-35.

*Jönsson, F. U., & Olsson, M. J. (2005). A metamemory perspective on odor naming and identification. Chemical Senses, 30, 353-365.

*Lundström, J. N. and Olsson, M. J. (2005). Subthreshold amounts of social odorant affect mood, but not behavior, in heterosexual women when tested by a male, but not a female, experimenter. Biological Psychology, 70(3), 197-204. [PDF]

*Lundström, J. N. McClintock, M. K., and Olsson, M. J. (2006). Effects of reproductive state on olfactory sensitivity suggest odor specificity. Biological Psychology, 71(3), 244-247. [PDF]

*Lundström, J. N., Olsson, M. J., Schaal, B., and Hummel, T. (2006). A putative social chemosignal elicits faster cortical responses than perceptually similar odorants. NeuroImage. 30, 1340-46.

Olsson, M. J., Lundström, J. N., Diamantopoulou, S., and Esteves, F. (2006). A putative female pheromone affects mood in men differently depending on social context. European Review of Applied Psychology. 56, 279-284.

*Lundström, J. N., Seven, S., Olsson, M. J., Schaal, B., and Hummel, T. (2006). Olfactory event-related potentials reflect individual differences in odor valence perception. Chemical Senses. 31(8), 705-711.

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