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”.

BIAL Foundation marks its 25th anniversary with an itinerant exhibition

To mark this occasion, the Foundation organizes the traveling exhibition BIAL Foundation - 25 Years, which discloses the work developed on the study and scientific research of the human being during the last two decades. The BIAL Foundation, created in 1994 by Laboratórios BIAL and the Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities, marks the occasion with a traveling exhibition curated by Prof. Daniel Bessa, member of the Foundation's Board of Directors.

The results of two research projects on meditation and near-death experiences supported by the BIAL Foundation will be presented at a public session

On October 28th, 9:30 a.m., the School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, will host at Auditorium Zulmira Simões (A0.01) the public presentation of the results of two projects supported by the BIAL Foundation.

Results of a project funded by the BIAL Foundation presented in Psychophysiology Journal

Juan Manuel Toro published in the scope of project Biological bases of music cognition, supported by the BIAL Foundation in the 2018/19 grants edition, the paper Dissonant endings of chord progressions elicit a larger ERAN than ambiguous endings in musicians in the journal Psychophysiology.