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 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.

Paper published in first quartile jourmal (Q1)

In the scope of the research project 356/18 - Neural mechanisms underlying unconscious working memory, supported by the BIAL Foundation, and carried out by the principal investigador Albert Compte, it was published the paper Pinging the brain with visual impulses reveals electrically active, not activity-silent, working memories in the high impact journal PLOS Biology.

Luís Portela's tribute by Trofa Town Hall

Luís Portela, Chairman of the BIAL Foundation, was honoured by the City Council of Trofa on the 23rd Anniversary Session of the City. The tribute ceremony took place on November 19th, in the Auditório do Fórum Trofa XXI.