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”.

Results of a project funded by the BIAL Foundation presented in European journal of Neuroscience

The article Hand blink reflex in virtual reality: The role of vision and proprioception in modulating defensive responses has been published in the European Journal of Neuroscience. This paper presents some of the main findings from project 218/16 - Virtual bodies, real empathy: Behavioural, bodily, and neural reactivity to the observation of pain and pleasure on self and others in immersive virtual reality, supported by the BIAL Foundation and led by Gaetano Tieri.

Research project supported by the BIAL Foundation published in Neuroimage

Sjoerd Ebisch published in the scope of project 195/16 - The sense of self: A neuroimaging study of interactions between intrinsic and extrinsic self networks, supported by the BIAL Foundation, the paper I am me: Brain systems integrate and segregate to establish a multidimensional sense of self in the journal NeuroImage.

Research project supported by the BIAL Foundation published in Neuroimage (2)

In the scope of the research project 304/14 - The impact of music training on reading and mathematical abilities of normal and reading disabled children: a behavioral and neuroimaging longitudinal study supported by the BIAL Foundation, the research team has published the paper Resting-state connectivity reveals a role for sensorimotor systems in vocal emotional processing in children in the journal NeuroImage.