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 brain functioning mechanisms be affected by perceived stress?

Pedro Morgado, supported by the Bial Foundation in the scope of the project 206/16 – Developing a neurofunctional intervention for emotion regulation under stress demonstrated that higher levels of perceived stress are directly associated with an increase in connectivity between the amygdala and regions of the frontal cortex, which is driven by a reduction in the pattern of activity between the amygdala and the hippocampus that evolves in opposite directions compared to other brain areas.

Maria de Sousa Award Ceremony: 2nd edition – 2022

The winners of Maria de Sousa Award: 2nd edition - 2022 will be announced in the Award ceremony that will take place on November 14, 2022, 6 p.m. in Lisbon, and will be held in a hybrid format, so everyone can watch online. The event will be chaired by the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education.

Do moral dilemmas have different neuronal responses across the life span?

In the scope of the project The Aging Social Brain – Neural and behavioral age-related changes in social cognition and decision-making, João Marques-Teixeira et al. published in the journal Neuroscience Letters the paper “Awareness to utilitarian responses in later life: An ERP study with moral dilemmas”.