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”.

Language recovery after a perinatal stroke

Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells, principal researcher of project “244/14 - Induced brain plasticity after perinatal stroke: structural and functional connectivity”, supported by the BIAL Foundation, published the paper Signatures of brain plasticity supporting language recovery after perinatal arterial ischemic stroke in the journal Brain & Language.

The near-death-experiences features

In the scope of the research project “Characterization of “Near-Death Experiences” through the comparison of experiencers and non-experiencers’ particularities: inter-individual differences in cognitive characteristics and susceptibility to false memories” supported by the BIAL Foundation, the research team of the University of Liège led by Steven Laureys published the paper The Near-Death Experience Content (NDE-C) scale: Development and psychometric validation in the journal Consciousness and Cognition.

Neurocognitive explorations of spiritual experience in Frontiers in Psychology

Joseph Glicksohn and Tal Dotan Ben-Soussan, team members of the research project 228/14 - Pushing consciousness and selfhood towards their boundaries - An EEG neurophenomenological study, published the paper Immersion, Absorption, and Spiritual Experience: Some Preliminary Findings in the journal Frontiers in Psychology.