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”.

Fear expressions of dogs under analysis in Scientific Reports

The article Fear expressions of dogs during New Year fireworks: a video analysis has been published in Scientific Reports. This paper presents some of the main findings from project 69/16 - The potential effect of behavioral stimulation on social competence in dogs (via endogenous oxytocin release), supported by the BIAL Foundation and coordinated by Anna Kis.

Paper published in Cerebral Cortex

In the scope of the research project 347/18 - Driving synaptic plasticity in motor-to-visual neural pathways to enhance action prediction, supported by the BIAL Foundation, the research team led by Alessio Avenanti published the paper Transcranial magnetic stimulation over the human medial posterior parietal cortex disrupts depth encoding during reach planning in the journal Cerebral Cortex.

Project supported by the BIAL Foundation published in Nature Communications

Zoltan Dienes and Peter Lush, researchers of project 163/18 - Effects of a short-term mindfulness intervention on hypnotisability and mental health, supported by the BIAL Foundation, published the paper Trait phenomenological control predicts experience of mirror synaesthesia and the rubber hand illusion in the prestigious journal Nature Communications.