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 effects of long-term meditation
The research team of the project Aware Mind-Brain: Bridging insights on the mechanisms and neural substrates of human awareness and meditation, coordinated by Antonino Raffone, published in Scientific Reports the paper Attentional and cognitive monitoring brain networks in long-term meditators depend on meditation states and expertise.
The neuronal basis of biases in monkeys
In the scope of project 117/18 - The neuronal basis of biases, supported by the BIAL Foundation, the research team led by Rubén Moreno Bote published the paper Prefrontal cortex represents heuristics that shape choice bias and its integration into future behavior in the journal Current Biology.
The effects of blinks and saccades on visual perception
In the scope of a project supported by the BIAL Foundation 231/10 - Toward understanding visual awareness: An intracranial EEG study on transient suppression phenomena of conscious visual perception, the research team led by Tonio Ball published the paper Blink- and saccade-related suppression effects in early visual areas of the human brain: Intracranial EEG investigations during natural viewing conditions in the journal NeuroImage.
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