I told Gemini that it gave me a reference that doesn't exist (literately: "the paper XXX does not exist"). It started arguing back! I had to prove it back-and-forth four times (!!) before it admitted the error! Now it named our chat: "Fictional References Accusation" How disturbing is that?

🧵Meet the Pupillary Respiratory-Phase Response (PRP): pupils constrict during inhalation and dilate during exhalation. It is the fourth known mechanism influencing pupil size, alongside the pupillary light, near fixation, and psychosensory responses.

Our new research reveals how the olfactory bulb (OB) and piriform cortex (PC) communicate odor valence in humans. plos.io/3NrX79q

Our pre-print is gaining some attention. Hope the paper and the upcoming perception studies do not disappoint😀 www.newscientist.com/article/2438...

1/5 Inhalation does not improve memory compared to exhalation - A cautionary tale. In the largest study to date (pre-registered, total n=214), we tested memory performance as function inhalation vs. exhalation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #neuroskyence

Research shows breathing can change our exteroceptive & affective perception, but how? Pleased to share our latest study, led by my PhD student Malthe Brændholt w/ Daniel Kluger, where we investigated the cognitive mechanisms using computational modeling! 🧠📈 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

One thing that's so fun about working on olfaction is the interdisciplinarity. An article in the Royal Society of Chemistry featuring our work on the cross-cultural perception of odor pleasantness. edu.rsc.org/feature/the-...

How cool is this!? Interoception "in the" olfactory bulb via heartbeats. Let's test this in humans ASAP. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Here we show that the human olfactory bulb can detect metabolic state, as evidenced by its response to fasting. This method enables the use of odors to study metabolic changes in health and disease (e.g., in eating disorders). Use it! #neuroskyence  www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Me: Draw a brain with the olfactory bulb and piriform cortex marked. ChatGpt: The illustration of the human brain with the olfactory bulb and piriform cortex marked is now available. Me: Yeah, it seems pretty reasonable. Thanks!

1/2 Inhaling for sharper memories? Our new study reveals that phase-locked breathing (onset of inhale or exhale) does not directly impact visual memory performance: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... but...

The website for our WAVES '24 Summer School + Symposium in southern Italy now live - an entire week of hands-on body-brain tutorials from all branches of neuroscience. Students, PhD candidates, and everyone else can now register trough the link below. Happy to answer any questions! #neuroskyence

The link between respiration and arousal is a bit more puzzling than widely assumed, as pointed out in the great review by non-blue Martin Schaefer and others from @odorjohan.bsky.social 's lab. Led by @ckeitelsci.bsky.social, we try to advance things a little with pupillometry. 🧠🟦 🧠🫁