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 neuronal basis of biases in monkeys

In the scope of project 117/18 - The neuronal basis of biases, supported by the BIAL Foundation, the research team led by Rubén Moreno Bote published the paper Prefrontal cortex represents heuristics that shape choice bias and its integration into future behavior in the journal Current Biology.

The effects of blinks and saccades on visual perception

In the scope of a project supported by the BIAL Foundation 231/10 - Toward understanding visual awareness: An intracranial EEG study on transient suppression phenomena of conscious visual perception, the research team led by Tonio Ball published the paper Blink- and saccade-related suppression effects in early visual areas of the human brain: Intracranial EEG investigations during natural viewing conditions in the journal NeuroImage.

Researchers supported by the BIAL Foundation published in Human Brain Mapping

Miguel Castelo-Branco et al. published in the scope of the research project 207/16 - The role of motion adaptation in bottom-up mechanisms of perceptual decision-making, supported by the BIAL Foundation, the paper The dual nature of the BOLD signal: Responses in visual area hMT+ reflect both input properties and perceptual decision in Human Brain Mapping.