Sleep research
We perceive musical harmony during sleep
06.02.2026
Music can evoke strong emotions und musical chords are the smallest musical units that carry emotional information. When we are awake, major chords are typically associated with positive emotions, while minor chords tend to evoke negative ones. But does the human brain also differentiate between musical chords during sleep? Researchers at the University of Fribourg are addressing this largely unexplored question.
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Festival
First edition of the Histoire et Cité Festival in Fribourg
02.02.2026
After the Universities of Geneva, Lausanne and Neuchâtel, the University of Fribourg is joining the festival dedicated to the historical sciences, whose 11th edition will take plac...
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Psychology
Do children work better alone or when supervised by an unknown?
12.03.2025
The presence of an unfamiliar person significantly slows down the time children take to complete tests. That is the conclusion of a recent study carried out on 123 children and it...
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Food
Inauguration of the Interfaculty Food Research and Innovation Center (FRIC)
27.09.2024
The new Interfaculty Food Research & Innovation Center (FRIC) was created in 2023 under the impulse of a working group led by Professor Stefan Salentinig. All faculties at the Univ...
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Award
Outstanding psycholinguist receives Swiss Science Prize
05.09.2024
The psycholinguist Pascal Gygax receives the Marcel Benoist Swiss Science Prize for his excellent work on the influence of language on the perception of reality. He is the fourth r...
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Ageing
Older people are living longer and feeling younger
26.08.2024
The Swiss population is ageing. Life expectancy is rising and after retirement people can look forward to making active use of a number of years in good health. Older people believ...
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Sleep
When the digestive system affects baby's sleep
25.04.2024
Sleep rhythm and the neurological development of infants depend closely on the brain and the gut. Two researchers at the University of Fribourg, working with colleagues from ETH Zu...
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Islam and Society
Customised continuing education for imams
26.09.2022
Imams play an important role as bridge builders between the mosque and society. With its customised continuing education programs, the MOGA project aims to offer targeted support t...
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Conspiracy theory
Extreme political circles, fertile ground for conspiracy theories
17.01.2022
The results of two international surveys of more than 100,000 participants across 26 countries show a correlation between belief in conspiracies and identification with the extreme...
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Sleep
Gut bacteria linked to infant sleep patterns
21.12.2021
A study led by the universities of Fribourg and Zurich and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation shows that the link between sleep behaviour and intestinal flora is alre...
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