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”.

Can decision making during recognition modulate alpha rhythm?

Carlo Sestieri, supported by the BIAL Foundation in the scope of project 159/16 – Unraveling the neural mechanisms of human memory decisions with magnetoencephalography, demonstrated, through MEG, the parietal lobe involvement in episodic memory, more specifically, event-related desynchornization (ERD) of alpha band could represent the neuronal signature of the accumulation process during a simple memor-based decision task. The paper “Alpha rhythm modulations in the intraparietal sulcus reflect decision signals during item recognition” featuring these results was published in the journal NeuroImage.

Does transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation modulate behavior?

Ruben Azevedo, supported by the BIAL Foundation in the scope of project 88/16 – The interoceptive self: Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation as a new tool to investigate heart-brain interactions demonstrated that the transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve could be an effective neuromodulatory technique to modulate cognitive processes and pupil size. The paper “Event-related transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation modulates behaviour” featuring these results was published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology

Luís Portela featured in the Journal of Scientific Exploration

Interview with Luís Portela regarding the launch of his book “The Science of Spirit” in the United States and the scarce international funding attributed to research in the area of parapsychology, considered a “frontier science”.