Rui Costa receives the 2014 Louis-Jeantet Young Investigator Career Award.

This award aims to facilitate the work of Rui Costa on the neurobiology of action, for which he had received an ERC Starting Grant in 2009.

Did you know that the CNP has one of the highest percentage of people that travel to work by bicycle in Lisbon?

Pedais.pt has conducted a survey about bicycle commuting across Lisbon and chose the CNP as one of the outstanding spots.

Tiago Marques, an INDP student in the CNP Cortical Circuits Laboratory finished Ironman in Zurich in 11’40’‘!

A new study reveals surprising similarities between the way mammals and flies eat.

What and how we eat is a crucial determinant of health and wellbeing. Model organisms such as fruit flies have provided crucial insights into how our brain decides what and how much to eat. But until now it was not clear how similar eating was in fruit flies and mammals.

In the recent Ar | Respire Connoso event – Mapping the Unknown, three different aspects of how theories help us to understand reality were explored: Historical – Giacomo Rizzolatti spoke about the idea of Mirror Neurons; Theoretical – Zachary Mainen discussed how more or less expansive theories contribute to the mapping of knowledge; E

In a study published last week in the scientific journal PLoS One, researchers at the CNP establish the effect of serotonin on sensitivity to pain.

Champalimaud Foundation opens its doors for another school year.

Since the inauguration of the CCU in 2011, the CF has kept an open door policy – welcoming pre-scheduled school visits to the building on a monthly basis. The CNP plays a key role in these tours, as high school students are guided by CNP members and receive presentations by CNP Principal Investigators.

Raízes da Curiosidade– Roots of Curiosity: Coming up this November!

A project designed by CNP researchers and coordinated by the Cultural Centre of Belem (CCB) results in a performance that explores the meeting point between art and science.

Researchers discover the neural basis of confidence and its effect on decision-making in rats.

Our confidence in what we know guides our behaviour in both trivial and crucial situations. For example, deciding whether to keep waiting for the bus depends on your confidence that the bus will arrive, and your decision to cross a busy road depends on your confidence that no cars are coming. These decisions rely on the consideration: how sure am I that my expectations are correct?

Researchers discover neurones that predict the timing of spontaneous decisions.

You’re waiting at a bus stop, expecting the bus to arrive any time. You watch the road. Nothing yet. A little later you start to pace. More time passes. Maybe there is some problem, you think. Finally, you give up and raise your arm and hail a taxi. Just as you pull away, you glimpse the bus gliding up. Did you have a choice to wait a bit longer? Or was giving up too soon the inevitable and predictable result of a chain of neural events?