Choosing the usual or taking a chance?

We always choose the same route back home, but one day, alerted about traffic restrictions, we decide to risk an alternative route. What drives us to make this decision?

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”.

Impact of hypnotic suggestions on the answer

The paper Now You See One Letter, Now You See Meaningless Symbols: Perceptual and Semantic Hypnotic Suggestions Reduce Stroop Errors Through Different Neurocognitive Mechanisms was published in Frontiers in Neuroscience by Rinaldo Livio Perri et al., in the scope of the just concluded project 101/18 - Hypnosis and Cognition: Neural Basis of Hypnotic Suggestion on Executive Functions and Perceptual Awareness.

Cognition & Movement

Giorgia Committeri published in the scope of the research project 336/18 – Research -Inspired Cognitive Empowerment: Modulating Episodic Memory through Egocentric Navigational Training (MEMENT), supported by the BIAL Foundation, the paper Automatic coding of environmental distance for walking-related locomotion in the foot-related sensory-motor system: A TMS study on macro-affordances in Neuropsychologia.

When our hearts beat together

In the scope of a project supported by the BIAL Foundation 87/12 – Neurobiological correlates of empathy in couples: A study of central and peripheral measures, the research team led by Joana Coutinho published the paper When our hearts beat together: Cardiac synchrony as an entry point to understand dyadic co‐regulation in couples in the journal Psychophysiology.