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 BIAL Foundation has been present in 29 countries

Did you know that the BIAL Foundation has already supported 775 research projects from 29 countries? In the latest edition of the Grants programme for Scientific Research 2020/21, 3 countries joined the list - Denmark, Finland and New Zealand.

The effects of long-term meditation

The research team of the project Aware Mind-Brain: Bridging insights on the mechanisms and neural substrates of human awareness and meditation, coordinated by Antonino Raffone, published in Scientific Reports the paper Attentional and cognitive monitoring brain networks in long-term meditators depend on meditation states and expertise.

The neuronal basis of biases in monkeys

In the scope of project 117/18 - The neuronal basis of biases, supported by the BIAL Foundation, the research team led by Rubén Moreno Bote published the paper Prefrontal cortex represents heuristics that shape choice bias and its integration into future behavior in the journal Current Biology.