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”.

Maria de Sousa Award Ceremony: 2nd edition – 2022

The winners of Maria de Sousa Award: 2nd edition - 2022 will be announced in the Award ceremony that will take place on November 14, 2022, 6 p.m. in Lisbon, and will be held in a hybrid format, so everyone can watch online. The event will be chaired by the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education.

Do moral dilemmas have different neuronal responses across the life span?

In the scope of the project The Aging Social Brain – Neural and behavioral age-related changes in social cognition and decision-making, João Marques-Teixeira et al. published in the journal Neuroscience Letters the paper “Awareness to utilitarian responses in later life: An ERP study with moral dilemmas”.

Can meditation influence the way we perceive time and space?

Marc Wittman, supported by the BIAL Foundation in the scope of project 50/16 – Changes in the temporal width of the present moment after meditation demonstrated that experienced meditators perceived their body boundaries as less salient during meditation than while reading the story. Morever, they also felt time passed more quickly and they paid less attention to time during meditation. The paper “Changes in subjective time and self during meditation” featuring these results was published in the journal Biology.