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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”.

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The journal Current Opinion in Neurobiology published results of project supported by the BIAL Foundation

Carlos Ribeiro published in the scope of project 279/16 - Harnessing the power of closed-loop neuronal control to identify the circuit basis of decision making, supported by the BIAL Foundation, the paper Nutrient homeostasis — translating internal states to behavior in the journal Current Opinion in Neurobiology.

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Researchers supported by the BIAL Foundation published in the journal Nature Communications

The research team of the project 261/18 - Phenomenological experience and neurophysiological correlates of shamanic trance in healthy individuals, led by Olivia Gosseries, published in Nature Communications the paper Behavioural and brain responses in cognitive trance: A TMS-EEG case study.

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Research project supported by the BIAL Foundation features in The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education

Juan Manuel Toro published in the scope of project 226/16 - Linking strawberries and politicians: The electrophysiology of the bimodal bilingual brain, supported by the BIAL Foundation, the paper Influence of Gesture and Linguistic Experience on Sign Perception in the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education.

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