Please have a look at some of our publications listed below
Predispositions
Pallante, V., Rucco, D. & Versace, E. (2021) Young chicks quickly lose their spontaneous preference to aggregate with females. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 75, 78.
Lorenzi, E., Lemaire, B. S., Versace, E., Matsushima, T., & Vallortigara, G. (2021). Resurgence of an inborn attraction for animate objects via thyroid hormone T3. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 15, 72.
Hébert, M., Versace, E. and Vallortigara, G. (2019). Inexperienced preys know when to flee or to freeze in front of a threat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(46), pp.22918–22920.
Szabó, E., Chiandetti, C., Téglás, E., Versace, E., Csibra, G., Kovács, Á. M., & Vallortigara, G. (2021). Young domestic chicks spontaneously represent the absence of objects. BioRxiv, 2021.01.20.427266.
Versace, E., Ragusa, M. & Vallortigara, G. (2019). A transient time window for early predispositions in newborn chicks. Sci Rep 9, 18767.
Versace, E., Damini, S. and Stancher, G. (2020). Early preference for face-like stimuli in solitary species as revealed by tortoise hatchlings. PNAS, 117(39), 24047-24049.
Versace, E., Ragusa, M. & Vallortigara, G (2019). A transient time window for early predispositions in newborn chicks. Sci Rep 9, 18767.
Lorenzi, E., Pross, A., Rosa-Salva, O., Versace, E., Sgadò, P., & Vallortigara, G. (2019). Embryonic exposure to valproic acid affects social predispositions for dynamic cues of animate motion in newly-hatched chicks. Frontiers in Physiology, 10(APR), 501.
Versace, E., Martinho-Truswell, A., Kacelnik, A., & Vallortigara, G. (2018). Priors in Animal and Artificial Intelligence: Where Does Learning Begin? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(11), 963–965.
Versace, E., Ragusa, M., Pallante, V., & Wang, S. (2021). Attraction for familiar conspecifics in young chicks (Gallus gallus): An interbreed study. Behavioural Processes, 193, 104498.
Lemaire, B.S., Rucco, D., Josserand, M., Vallortigara, G., Versace, E. (2021). Stability and individual variability of social attachment in imprinting. Scientific Reports 11: 7914.
Versace, E., Rogge, J. R., Shelton-May, N., & Ravignani, A. (2019). Positional encoding in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Animal Cognition, 22(5), 825–838.
Rosa-Salva, O., Fiser, J., Versace, E., Dolci, C., Chehaimi, S., Santolin, C., & Vallortigara, G. (2018). Spontaneous Learning of Visual Structures in Domestic Chicks. Animals 2018, Vol. 8, Page 135, 8(8), 135.
Versace, E., Spierings, M. J., Caffini, M., Carel Ten Cate, •, & Vallortigara, G. (n.d.). (2017). Spontaneous generalization of abstract multimodal patterns in young domestic chicks. Animal Cognition.
Wang, C., Benetos, E., Wang, S., & Versace, E. (2021). Joint Scattering for Automatic Chick Call Recognition. https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03965v1
Slonina, Z., Bonzini, A. A., Brown, J., Wang, S., Farkhatdinov, I., Althoefer, K., Jamone, L., & Versace, E. (2021). Using RoboChick to Identify the Behavioral Features Promoting Social Interactions. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, ICDL 2021.
Josserand, M., Rosa-Salva, O., Versace, E., & Lemaire, B. S. (2021). Visual Field Analysis: a reliable method to score left- and right eye-use using automated tracking. BioRxiv, 2021.05.08.443242.
Versace, E., Sgadò, P., George, J., Loveland, J. L., Ward, J., Thorpe, P., Jensen, L. J., Spencer, K. A., Paracchini, S., & Vallortigara, G. (2021). Light-induced asymmetries in the embryonic retina are mediated by the vascular system and extracellular matrix. BioRxiv,
Versace, E., Caffini, M., Werkhoven, Z., & de Bivort, B. L. (2020). Individual, but not population asymmetries, are modulated by social environment and genotype in Drosophila melanogaster. Scientific Reports 2020 10:1, 10(1), 1–13.
Versace, E., & Vallortigara, G. (2015). Forelimb preferences in human beings and other species: Multiple models for testing hypotheses on lateralization. Frontiers in Psychology, 6(MAR), 233. https://doi.org/10.3389/FPSYG.2015.00233/BIBTEX
Hsu, S.-K., Lai, W.-Y., Novak, J., Lehner, F., Jakšić, A. M., Versace, E., & Schlötterer, C. (2021). Pre- and post-mating reproductive isolation evolve independently during rapid adaptation to high temperature. BioRxiv, 2021.11.08.467720.
Hsu, S. K., Jakšić, A. M., Nolte, V., Lirakis, M., Kofler, R., Barghi, N., Versace, E., & Schlötterer, C. (2020). Rapid sex-specific adaptation to high temperature in drosophila. ELife, 9.