Notícias

Estudos sobre alegadas memórias de vidas passadas

Sabia que a maioria dos estudos sobre alegadas memórias de vidas passadas foram realizados sobretudo em países da Ásia?

Empatia em casais

Compreender o funcionamento adaptado dos casais é algo crucial dadas as consequências nefastas da violência conjugal.

Vai escolher o de sempre ou arriscar?

Escolhemos sempre o mesmo caminho de regresso a casa, mas um dia decidimos arriscar um percurso alternativo. O que nos leva a tomar esta decisão?

Sonhar enquanto se dorme e “sonhar acordado”: diferenças e semelhanças

Sabia que os sonhos “diurnos” refletem acontecimentos dos dois dias anteriores, enquanto os sonhos “noturnos” se assemelham a um enredo de ficção?

O seu cão tem competências sociais?

Estudo revela que a visualização do rosto do dono funciona como reforço social positivo para os cães. Conheça resultados intrigantes sobre o “melhor amigo do homem”.

Reino Unido, Portugal e EUA foram os países com mais projetos apoiados

Sabia que os países com mais projetos de investigação apoiados pela Fundação BIAL ao longo do tempo foram o Reino Unido, Portugal e EUA?

A Fundação BIAL já marcou presença em 29 países

Sabia que a Fundação BIAL já apoiou 775 projetos de investigação de 29 países? Na mais recente edição dos Apoios à Investigação Científica 2020/21 integraram 3 países, a Dinamarca, a Finlândia e a Nova Zelândia.

Efeitos da prática de meditação a longo-prazo

A equipa de investigação do projeto Aware Mind-Brain: Bridging insights on the mechanisms and neural substrates of human awareness and meditation, coordenado por Antonino Raffone, publicou na revista Scientific Reports o artigo Attentional and cognitive monitoring brain networks in long-term meditators depend on meditation states and expertise.

As bases neurais do enviesamento comportamental em macacos

No âmbito do projeto de investigação apoiado pela Fundação BIAL 117/18 - The neuronal basis of biases, a equipa de investigação liderada por Rubén Moreno Bote publicou o artigo Prefrontal cortex represents heuristics that shape choice bias and its integration into future behavior na revista Current Biology.

Os efeitos do piscar de olhos e dos movimentos sacádicos na perceção visual

No âmbito do projeto de investigação apoiado pela Fundação BIAL 231/10 - Toward understanding visual awareness: An intracranial EEG study on transient suppression phenomena of conscious visual perception, a equipa de investigação liderada por Tonio Ball publicou o artigo Blink- and saccade-related suppression effects in early visual areas of the human brain: Intracranial EEG investigations during natural viewing conditions na revista NeuroImage.

Investigadores apoiados pela Fundação BIAL publicam em “Human Brain Mapping”

Miguel Castelo-Branco e colaboradores publicaram no âmbito do projeto de investigação 207/16 - The role of motion adaptation in bottom-up mechanisms of perceptual decision-making, apoiado pela Fundação Bial, o artigo The dual nature of the BOLD signal: Responses in visual area hMT+ reflect both input properties and perceptual decision na revista científica Human Brain Mapping.

Efeitos da sugestão hipnótica na resposta

O artigo Now You See One Letter, Now You See Meaningless Symbols: Perceptual and Semantic Hypnotic Suggestions Reduce Stroop Errors Through Different Neurocognitive Mechanisms foi publicado na revista Frontiers in Neuroscience por Rinaldo Livio Perri e colaboradores no âmbito do projeto recentemente concluído 101/18 - Hypnosis and Cognition: Neural Basis of Hypnotic Suggestion on Executive Functions and Perceptual Awareness.

Cognição & Movimento

Giorgia Committeri e colaboradores publicaram no âmbito do projeto de Investigação 336/18 - Research-Inspired Cognitive Empowerment: Modulating Episodic Memory through Egocentric Navigational Training (MEMENT), apoiado pela Fundação BIAL, o artigo Automatic coding of environmental distance for walking-related locomotion in the foot-related sensory-motor system: A TMS study on macro-affordances na revista científica Neuropsychologia.

Quando os nossos corações batem juntos

No âmbito do projeto de investigação apoiado pela Fundação BIAL 87/12 – Neurobiological correlates of empathy in couples: A study of central and peripheral measures, a equipa de investigação liderada por Joana Coutinho publicou o artigo When our hearts beat together: Cardiac synchrony as an entry point to understand dyadic co‐regulation in couples na revista Psychophysiology.

The quest of physiological markers for the experience of pain

Researcher: Elia Valentini - Department of Psychology & Centre for Brain Science, University of Essex Summary: The aim of this project is to improve measurement of the human experience of pain by investigating a combination of psychophysical and physiological responses during mild noxious stimulation. More specifically, we want to investigate how sensitive and specific to pain the brain oscillatory responses are. We use EEG as the main technique, but we are keen to collaborate with neuroscientists using fMRI, autonomic measures and brain stimulation as well as with computational neuroscientists. A clinical collaborator would also be very much welcome.

EEG investigation of hypnosis and decision-making

Researcher: Rinaldo Livio Perri - University Niccolò Cusano Rome, Italy Summary: I work in the field of hypnosis and cognitive neuroscience. In particular, I adopt the event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate the effect of the hypnotic suggestions on sensory processing and cognitive performance. I am an expert in decision-making and proactive brain processes before the stimulus administration (e.g., the perceptual, prefrontal and premotor readiness during the expectancy stage). I could help colleagues to properly analyze the ERP signal in the pre-stimulus stage of processing. Also, I would be happy to share my EEG data for re-analyzing them in the frequency domain (e.g., wavelet or coherence analysis in the hypnosis research). Feel free to contact me for any question! More information on my papers: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=-8e_V64AAAAJ&hl=it Possible collaborations: neuroscientist with experience in the EEG frequency analysis Email: perri.rinaldo@gmail.com

Transparent Psi Project - looking for collaborators

Summary: We are running a fully transparent, expert consensus-base multilab replication of Bem’s (2011) experiment 1. The project features state of the art methods to maximize transparency and study integrity. The study involves a computerized experiment taking about 20 minutes per session. Group testing is possible in a computer lab, no specialized equipment needed. Labs are expected to recruit at least 100 participants. Participants will be exposed to images with explicit erotic/sexual content in the experiment. No financial compensation is required for the participants. Data collection is expected to take place in the 2020 fall semester. Every material is provided for ethics/IRB submissions and data collection in English (translation of materials might be necessary by the collaborators). The study is pre-registered and the manuscript is accepted in principle for publication in the journal Royal Society Open Science. All collaborators who meet the minimum sample size criterion will get authorship on this paper reporting the results of the replication study. More information in the preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/uwk7y/ Indicate interest in the collaboration via the following form: https://tinyurl.com/tpp-labs With any question contact the lead investigator: Dr. Zoltan Kekecs, kekecs.zoltan@gmail.com

Cognitive control and learning

Researcher: Ignacio Obeso, Ph.D. / CINAC - HM Puerta del Sur Summary: The aim of our projects is to understand the behavioral and neural mechanisms used to learn how humans establish adaptive behaviour in changing contexts. More specifically, we want to decipher how stopping abilities are initially learned and later executed under automatic control. We use task-related fMRI, brain stimulation and clinical models to test our predictions in laboratory settings as well as online home-based paradigms. Possible collaborations: computational scientist Email contact: i.obesomartin@gmail.com https://iobesomartin.wixsite.com/cognitivecontrol