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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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Results of a project funded by the BIAL Foundation presented in the journal Neuroimage

The article Predicting response originality through brain activity: An analysis of changes in EEG alpha power during the generation of alternative ideas has been published in the journal NeuroImage in the scope of the research project 298/16 - Empowering feedback connections in temporo-occipital network to boost visual perception of emotions, supported by the BIAL Foundation.

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Results of a project funded by the BIAL Foundation presented in European journal of Neuroscience

The article Hand blink reflex in virtual reality: The role of vision and proprioception in modulating defensive responses has been published in the European Journal of Neuroscience. This paper presents some of the main findings from project 218/16 - Virtual bodies, real empathy: Behavioural, bodily, and neural reactivity to the observation of pain and pleasure on self and others in immersive virtual reality, supported by the BIAL Foundation and led by Gaetano Tieri.

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Research project supported by the BIAL Foundation published in Neuroimage

Sjoerd Ebisch published in the scope of project 195/16 - The sense of self: A neuroimaging study of interactions between intrinsic and extrinsic self networks, supported by the BIAL Foundation, the paper I am me: Brain systems integrate and segregate to establish a multidimensional sense of self in the journal NeuroImage.

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