Publications

Publications of specific relevance to Advanced Robotics
2023
Versace E, Bliss L, Vasas V, Freeland L, Roach R and Ferrè E (2023).
A spontaneous gravity prior: Newborn chicks prefer stimuli that move against gravity. Biology Letters 10.1098/rsbl.2022.05022022
Versace E, Sgadò P, George J, Loveland JL, Ward J, Thorpe P, Jensen LJ, Spencer KA, Paracchini S and Vallortigara G (2022).
Light-induced asymmetries in embryonic retinal gene expression are mediated by the vascular system and extracellular matrix. Scientific Reports vol. 12, (1)
10.1038/s41598-022-14963-8
Versace E, Gallo V, Xin Z, Abdallah D, Angioi M, Redding E, Ackroyd B and Galvan C (2022).
MotionPerfection: An agile tool for the visualisation, analysis, annotation, and record of motor practice. SoftwareX 10.1016/j.softx.2022.101247
Josserand M, Rosa-Salva O,
Versace E and Lemaire BS (2022).
Visual Field Analysis: A reliable method to score left and right eye use using automated tracking. Behavior Research Methods vol. 54, (4) 1715-1724.
10.3758/s13428-021-01702-6
Szabó E, Chiandetti C, Téglás E,
Versace E, Csibra G, Kovács ÁM and Vallortigara G (2022).
Young domestic chicks spontaneously represent the absence of objects. eLife vol. 11,
10.7554/eLife.672082021

Lemaire BS, Rucco D, Josserand M, Vallortigara G and
Versace E (2021).
Stability and individual variability of social attachment in imprinting. Scientific Reports vol. 11, (1)
10.1038/s41598-021-86989-3
Versace E, Ragusa M, Pallante V and Wang S (2021).
Attraction for familiar conspecifics in young chicks (Gallus gallus): an interbreed study. Behavioural Processes 10.1016/j.beproc.2021.104498
Rosa-Salva O, Mayer U,
Versace E, Hébert M, Lemaire BS and Vallortigara G (2021).
Sensitive periods for social development: Interactions between predisposed and learned mechanisms. Cognition vol. 213,
10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104552
Pallante V, Rucco D and
Versace E (2021).
Young chicks quickly lose their spontaneous preference to aggregate with females. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology vol. 75, (5)
10.1007/s00265-021-03012-5
Lorenzi E, Lemaire BS,
Versace E, Matsushima T and Vallortigara G (2021).
Resurgence of an inborn attraction for animate objects via thyroid hormone T3. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 10.3389/fnbeh.2021.6759942020
Versace E, Damini S and Stancher G (2020).
Early preference for face-like stimuli in solitary species as revealed by tortoise hatchlings. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 10.1073/pnas.2011453117
Versace E, Caffini M, Werkhoven Z and de Bivort BL (2020).
Individual, but not population asymmetries, are modulated by social environment and genotype in Drosophila melanogaster. Scientific Reports vol. 10, (1)
10.1038/s41598-020-61410-7
Versace E, Schloetterer C, Hsu S-K, Jaks?ic? AM, Nolte V, Lirakis M, Kofler R and Barghi N (2020).
Rapid sex-specific adaptation to high temperature in Drosophila. eLife 10.7554/eLife.532372019

Hebert 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 of USA 10.1073/pnas.1915504116
Versace E, Rogge JR, Shelton-May N and Ravignani A (2019).
Positional encoding in cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Animal Cognition vol. 22, (5) 825-838.
10.1007/s10071-019-01277-y
Lorenzi E, Pross A, Rosa-Salva O,
Versace E, Sgadò P and Vallortigara G (2019).
Embryonic exposure to valproic acid affects social predispositions for dynamic cues of animate motion in newly-hatched chicks. Frontiers in Physiology vol. 10, (APR)
10.3389/fphys.2019.005012018
Versace E, Martinho-Truswell A, Kacelnik A and Vallortigara G (2018).
Priors in Animal and Artificial Intelligence: Where Does Learning Begin? Trends in Cognitive Sciences vol. 22, (11) 963-965.
10.1016/j.tics.2018.07.005
Belloni V, Galeazzi A, Bernini G, Mandrioli M,
Versace E and Haase A (2018).
Corrigendum to “Evolutionary compromises to metabolic toxins: Ammonia and urea tolerance in Drosophila suzukii and Drosophila melanogaster” [Physiol. Behav. 191, 1 July 2018, 146–154] (S0031938418301975) (10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.04.021)). Physiology and Behavior vol. 194,
10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.05.013
rosa-salva O, Fiser J,
VERSACE E, Dolci C, Chehaimi S, Santolin C and Vallortigara G (2018).
Spontaneous learning of visual structures in domestic chicks. Animals 10.3390/ani8080135
Belloni V, Galeazzi A, Bernini G, Mandrioli M,
Versace E and Haase A (2018).
Evolutionary compromises to metabolic toxins: Ammonia and urea tolerance in Drosophila suzukii and Drosophila melanogaster. Physiology and Behavior vol. 191, 146-154.
10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.04.021
Sgadò P, Rosa-Salva O,
VERSACE E and Vallortigara G (2018).
Embryonic Exposure to Valproic Acid Impairs Social Predispositions of Newly-Hatched Chicks. Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-018-24202-82017

Versace E, Spierings MJ, Caffini M, ten Cate C and Vallortigara G (2017).
Spontaneous generalization of abstract multimodal patterns in young domestic chicks. Animal Cognition vol. 20, (3) 521-529.
10.1007/s10071-017-1079-5
Versace E, Fracasso I, Baldan G, Dalle Zotte A and Vallortigara G (2017).
Newborn chicks show inherited variability in early social predispositions for hen-like stimuli. Sci Rep vol. 7,
10.1038/srep402962016

Rogers LJ, Frasnelli E and
Versace E (2016).
Lateralized antennal control of aggression and sex differences in red mason bees, Osmia bicornis. Sci Rep vol. 6,
10.1038/srep294112014
Versace E, Nolte V, Pandey RV, Tobler R and Schlötterer C (2014).
Experimental evolution reveals habitat-specific fitness dynamics among Wolbachia clades in Drosophila melanogaster. Mol Ecol vol. 23, (4) 802-814.
10.1111/mec.12643