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”.

Research Project supported by the BIAL Foundation was published in the Journal Brain Structure & Function

In the scope of the research project 298/16 - Empowering feedback connections in temporo-occipital network to boost visual perception of emotions supported by the BIAL Foundation, Sara Borgomaneri and collaborators published the paper Behavioral inhibition system sensitivity enhances motor cortex suppression when watching fearful body expressions in the journal Brain Structure & Function.

Researchers supported by the BIAL foundation published in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences

In the scope of the research project Characterization of “Near-Death Experiences” through the comparison of experiencers and non-experiencers’ particularities: inter-individual differences in cognitive characteristics and susceptibility to false memories supported by the BIAL Foundation, Steven Laureys and colleagues published the paper Near-Death Experience as a Probe to Explore (Disconnected) Consciousness in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences.