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”.

Researchers supported by the BIAL Foundation published in Cortex

Alejandra Sel et al. published in the scope of the research project 44/16 - Inducing and measuring plasticity in response control mechanisms in the human brain, supported by the BIAL Foundation, the paper The somatotopy of observed emotions in Cortex.

Project supported by the BIAL Foundation published in Scientific Reports

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 a paper about meditation: Common and distinct lateralised patterns of neural coupling during focused attention, open monitoring and loving kindness meditation

Results of a project funded by the BIAL foundation presented in Neuron

The article Postingestive Modulation of Food Seeking Depends on Vagus-Mediated Dopamine Neuron Activity has been published in the journal Neuron. This paper presents some of the main findings from project 176/10 - Dopaminergic regulation of dietary learning in humans and rodents, supported by the BIAL Foundation and led by Albino Oliveira-Maia.