Dream and daydream: differences and similarities

Did you know that daydreams reflect events from the previous two days and “night” dreams resemble a fictional plot?

Does your dog have social skills?

A study suggests that viewing the owner’s face works as a positive social reinforcement for dogs. Learn more about this and other surprising results about “man’s best friend”.

The BIAL Foundation has already supported 215 women as Principal Investigators

Did you know that in the scope of its Grants programme for Scientific Research the BIAL Foundation has already supported 215 women as Principal Investigators?

Stimulus novelty and emotionality interact in the processing of visual distractors

In the scope of project 287/20 - Emotional Distraction: contextual modulation of attentional capture, supported by the BIAL Foundation, Maurizio Codispoti et al. published in the journal Biological Psychology the paper Stimulus novelty and emotionality interact in the processing of visual distractors with the following highlights

Is there continuity of consciousness between waking and sleeping states?

Benjamin Baird, supported by the BIAL Foundation in the scope of project 334/18 - Inducing lucid dreams with optimized sensory cues, concluded that episodic thoughts of both the past and the future rarely occur in either N2 or REM sleep, while common during waking spontaneous thought. The paper “Episodic thought distinguishes spontaneous cognition in waking from REM and NREM sleep” featuring these results was published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition