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”.

The BIAL Foundation has received 395 applications

Did you know that the BIAL Foundation as received 395 applications from 29 countries to the Grants programme for Scientific Research 2020/21 and 85 were approved?

Brain Sciences 2020 Young Investigator Award

Olivia Gosseries, principal investigator of project 261/18 - Phenomenological experience and neurophysiological correlates of shamanic trance in healthy individuals, supported by the BIAL Foundation, was one of the winners of the Brain Sciences 2020 Young Investigator Award.

Ana João Rodrigues wins an ERC grant

Ana João Rodrigues, researcher at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho, Portugal and principal of investigator of the research project 30/16 - Exploring the neural basis of motivation, supported by the BIAL Foundation, was awarded with an European Research Council grant receiving around 2 million euros to understand how the brain encodes perceives and encodes pleasure and aversion.