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”.

How motivated behavior is influenced by reinforcement/reward?

Carina Soares-Cunha, supported by the BIAL Foundation in the scope of project 175/20 – The role of nucleus accumbens in the perception of natural rewards, concluded that, in rodents, the optogenetic modullation of the D2-MSN-VP projections has different effects in the distinct phases of motivated behavior.

The BIAL Foundation has already supported a total of 775 projects in the domains of Psychophysiology and Parapsychology?

Did you know that in the scope of its Grants programme for Scientific Research, since 1994, the BIAL Foundation has already supported 775 projects in the domains of Psychophysiology and Parapsychology?

What do EEG studies tell us about affective modulation?

In the scope of the project 347/18 – Driving synaptic plasticity in motor-to-visual neural pathways to enhance action prediction, Alessio Avenanti et al.,  published in the journa Physiology & Behavior the paper “Affective modulation of cognitive control: A systematic review of EEG studies”