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”.

Could animals be able to detect musical changes?

Juan Toro, supported by the BIAL Foundation in the scope of project 13/18 - Biological bases of music cognition, concluded, in rodents, that they are able to detect changes in pitch, tempo and timbre.

Are lucid dreams a mixture of sleep and wakefulness?

Benjamin Baird, supported by the BIAL Foundation in the scope of project 334/18 - Inducing lucid dreams with optimized sensory cues, concluded that the lucid dreams are more that a mixture of sleep and wakefulness, with a EEG patter characteristic.

Could mindfulness meditation benefit memory?

Aviva Berkovich-Ohana, supported by the BIAL Foundation in the scope of project 191/20 – Understanding the brain mechanisms of death-denial for fostering mindfulness-based existential resilience, concluded that the practice of mindfulness mediattion it is benefic to delcarative memory performance.