Choosing the usual or taking a chance?

We always choose the same route back home, but one day, alerted about traffic restrictions, we decide to risk an alternative route. What drives us to make this decision?

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”.

The effects of blinks and saccades on visual perception

In the scope of a project supported by the BIAL Foundation 231/10 - Toward understanding visual awareness: An intracranial EEG study on transient suppression phenomena of conscious visual perception, the research team led by Tonio Ball published the paper Blink- and saccade-related suppression effects in early visual areas of the human brain: Intracranial EEG investigations during natural viewing conditions in the journal NeuroImage.

Researchers supported by the BIAL Foundation published in Human Brain Mapping

Miguel Castelo-Branco et al. published in the scope of the research project 207/16 - The role of motion adaptation in bottom-up mechanisms of perceptual decision-making, supported by the BIAL Foundation, the paper The dual nature of the BOLD signal: Responses in visual area hMT+ reflect both input properties and perceptual decision in Human Brain Mapping.

Impact of hypnotic suggestions on the answer

The paper Now You See One Letter, Now You See Meaningless Symbols: Perceptual and Semantic Hypnotic Suggestions Reduce Stroop Errors Through Different Neurocognitive Mechanisms was published in Frontiers in Neuroscience by Rinaldo Livio Perri et al., in the scope of the just concluded project 101/18 - Hypnosis and Cognition: Neural Basis of Hypnotic Suggestion on Executive Functions and Perceptual Awareness.