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”.

Consciousness and Cognition publishes findings of a research project supported by the BIAL Foundation

The research team led by Mark Blagrove has published, in the scope of the research project 83/14 - Electrophysiological correlates of the incorporation of recent memory sources into REM and non-REM dreams and of levels of insight following REM and non-REM dream interpretation supported by the Bial Foundation, the paper Daydreams incorporate recent waking life concerns but do not show delayed (‘dream-lag’) incorporations in the journal Consciousness and Cognition.

Researchers supported by the BIAL Foundation published in the journal Current Biology

In the scope of the research project 185/12 - Circuit mechanisms of spatial attention in the zebrafish midbrain supported by the BIAL Foundation, Michael Orger and collaborators published the paper Structure of the zebrafish locomotor repertoire revealed with unsupervised behavioral clustering in the journal Current Biology.

Research Project supported by the BIAL Foundation was published in the Journal Scientific Reports

In the scope of the research project 206/14 - Examination of brain coordination dynamics underlying hypnosis and volitional acts using intracranial electroencephalography supported by the BIAL Foundation, the research team has published the paper Exploring the alpha desynchronization hypothesis in resting state networks with intracranial electroencephalography and wiring cost estimates in the journal Scientific Reports.