Francesco Versace

What a stimulus predicts, not what it depicts, determines striatal reward signals

This study shows that striatal reward signals are driven by what a stimulus predicts, not its emotional content or visual features, using an fMRI paradigm with food cues and emotional images.

Emotion regulation or dual task? Dissociation of neural and behavioral measures

The paper investigates whether LPP modulation during emotion regulation reflects volitional control or cognitive load, finding evidence supporting the latter.

Do GLP-1 Receptor Agonists Alter Brain Responses to Reward-Related Cues? A Systematic Review

This review examines how GLP-1 receptor agonists affect brain responses to reward-related cues using fMRI, finding limited and inconsistent evidence of reduced reactivity to food cues.

Profiles of Neuroaffective Responding to Natural Reward-Predicting Cues and Alcohol Images in Alcohol Use Disorder: An Event-Related Potential Approach

The paper examines differences in neural responses to natural and alcohol reward cues in individuals with alcohol use disorder using event-related potentials.

Individual differences in late positive potential amplitude and theta power predict cue-induced eating

The paper shows that individual differences in late positive potential (LPP) amplitude and theta power predict cue-induced eating behavior in response to food rewards.

Electrophysiological normative responses to emotional, neutral, and cigarette-related images.

The paper provides electrophysiological normative responses for emotional images to create reliable probes for studying affective systems.

Neuroaffective profiles are associated with e-cigarette use

The paper links neuroaffective responses to nicotine-related cues with higher e-cigarette use frequency in smokers.

Estimating statistical power for event-related potential studies using the late positive potential

This study uses Monte Carlo simulations to investigate how trial number, subject number, and effect size influence statistical power in LPP ERP studies, finding higher power with more subjects and trials and lower power in between-subjects designs.

A Neurophysiological Measure of Reward Sensitivity and its Limited Association with Anhedonia in Adolescents and Young Adults

The paper measures reward sensitivity using a signal detection task and finds weak associations between response bias and anhedonia in adolescents and young adults.

The reality of "food porn": Larger brain responses to food-related cues than to erotic images predict cue-induced eating.

The paper shows that greater brain response to food cues than erotic images predicts more eating in response to food cues.