Dream and daydream: differences and similarities

Did you know that daydreams reflect events from the previous two days and “night” dreams resemble a fictional plot?

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”.

Can the brain retrieve unseen motor information during speech vocalization?

Alice Tomassini, supported by the BIAL Foundation in the scope of project 246/20 - The hidden rhythm of interpersonal (sub-)movement coordination, concluded that during speech listening the brain reconstructs articulatory information that is not available to vision. These findings are discussed in the paper Speech listening entails neural encoding of invisible articulatory features published in the journal NeuroImage.

Does mood impact our confidence?

“Spontaneous fluctuations of mood and confidence in decision making are independent in the healthy adult population” was one of the main highlights of the study “Mood and implicit confidence independently fluctuate at different time scales” published in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, and carried out in the scope of the research project 117/18 – The neuronal basis of biases, led by Rubén Moreno Bote and supported by the BIAL Foundation.

Nuno Grande Doctoral Scholarship 2022: applications are open

Applications are now open for the Nuno Grande Doctoral Scholarship 2022, worth €25,000. Candidates must, at the time of application submission, be enrolled in the Doctoral Program in Medical Sciences at ICBAS. The applications are open until January 20, 2023.