A recent study by LabSex researchers, published in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, addresses how masturbation and orgasmic experience are related in sexual relationships.
The researcher Juan Lupiáñez will be one of the two European neuroscientists on the panel of 20 independent experts who will participate in selecting the best designs for the new euro banknotes. This multidisciplinary jury, comprising experts from diverse fields, spans history and art history, graphic and industrial design, architecture, archaeology, communication, psychology and neuroscience. Its role will be to evaluate the design proposals and advise the Governing Council of the ECB on the final selection.
The Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC) of the University of Granada has signed a collaboration agreement with the Science Park of Granada (Spain) to promote scientific culture among citizens through the development of dissemination and research projects of excellence. This strategic collaboration reinforces the commitment of both institutions to generating and disseminating scientific knowledge as a key driver of growth and social transformation.
”la Caixa” Foundation grants 20 postdoctoral fellowships for researchers of any nationality to carry out a research project in a STEM discipline at universities and research centres of accredited excellence.
A study by CIMCYC's Neuroplasticity and Learning Group has confirmed that when we are hungry, high-calorie foods capture our attention more quickly, an evolutionary bias that today may contribute to overconsumption. However, their study, adapted to the Spanish diet, did not find that nutritional labels such as NutriScore influence satiety or attention to food, suggesting the need for more research on the effectiveness of these systems.
The Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC) of the University of Granada has published its Annual Activity Report 2024. This document details the activity and achievements of the center, whose results reflect the commitment and work over the years to achieve research excellence in Psychology and related areas.
Teresa Bajo, Director of the Memory and Language Laboratory at the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC) and full professor in experimental psychology at the University of Granada, has been honored with the 2025 Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award by the Psychonomic Society.
We are pleased to announce the upcoming Master's Thesis (TFM) Defenses (ordinary session) for the Master's in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience. This event marks the culmination of our students' academic program. The defenses for these research projects, from both the Research and Neuropsychology tracks, will take place on July 7th and 8th.
Researchers from CIMCYC interviewed adolescents and young people in Andalusia to understand how sexuality is constructed during adolescence. The results, published in the journal *Sexuality & Culture*, reveal inequalities.
Do arrows and eyes looking in a specific direction guide us the same way? A team from the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC) at the University of Granada, in collaboration with the Sapienza University of Rome, has explored this question by comparing how we process social stimuli like eyes and faces versus non-social cues like arrows, especially when both conflict with their spatial location
