Artin Arshamian

I am the principal Investigator of the Embodied Perception and Cognition group. Our interdisciplinary team aims to unravel the neural and behavioral underpinnings of the olfactory system at the nexus of psychology, neuroscience, culture, and medicine. To achieve this interdisciplinary goal, we collaborate with many different research groups from various disciplines. This allows us to integrate, develop, and utilize state-of-the art methodologies from a diverse array of fields, including psychology, neuroscience, material science, anthropology, and linguistics. These tools enable us to tackle emerging questions concerning the sense of smell in health and disease, such as anosmia and Parkinson's disease. Moreover, we employ our research approach to examine both diverse human populations across the globe, encompassing urban dwellers to small-scale societies (e.g. hunter-gatherer groups), and compare our findings to animal models like rodents.