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”.

Bestseller of Luís Portela in audiobook

The bestseller “Ser Espiritual - Da Evidência à Ciência”, by the Chairman of the BIAL Foundation, Luís Portela, is now available in audiobook (Portuguese version only). In this talking book, with narration by the author, Luís Portela crosses traditional knowledge with the results of recent scientific research and suggests a prior depriving of concepts and prejudices so that the reader can see the Universe from his spiritual self of a harmonious, consistent and useful form for future life.

New mechanisms for preventing tau protein aggregation

In the scope of the research project 343/14 - Proteotoxic insults and synaptic dysfunction in the aging brain, supported by the BIAL Foundation, the research team led by Cláudio Gomes published the paper “Dynamic interactions and Ca2+-binding modulate the holdase-type chaperone activity of S100B preventing tau aggregation and seeding” in the journal Nature Communications.

The decrease of working memory performance during multitasking

“The presence of serial processing in multitasking imposes additional processing demands beyond the mere sum of those imposed by the single-task performance” was one of the conclusions of the paper “The working memory costs of a central attentional bottleneck in multitasking”, of Andre Szameitat et al., published in Psychological Research, in the scope of the research project 142/16 - Gender differences in physiological correlates of multitasking, supported by the BIAL Foundation.