Elisabetta Versace

This study investigates social interactions in adult captive tortoises, finding that sex, not familiarity, influences social cohesion and behavior.

This study identifies transcriptomic changes in zebra finch embryos exposed to prenatal acoustic heat calls, revealing anticipatory programming of the neurovascular system to enhance heat resilience.

This study shows bumblebees can discriminate between visual flashing stimuli of different durations, even when total stimulation time is equal.

This study shows tortoises associate high-pitched sounds with bright colors and low-pitched sounds with dark colors, similar to humans and chimpanzees.

This study shows bumblebees groom noxiously-stimulated antennae more than other body parts or controls, indicating they may experience pain.

This study shows neonate animals use innate biases for generalisation, consistent with a Bayesian model, without relying on experience or reinforcement.

The paper shows that chicks can recognize objects by sight after tactile exposure, suggesting cross-modal recognition does not require multimodal experience.

The paper investigates light-induced left-right asymmetries in the chick retina, finding transient gene expression changes and links to vascular and extracellular matrix pathways.

The paper examines how social environment and genotype affect individual and population-level behavioral asymmetries in Drosophila melanogaster, finding that individual asymmetries are modulated by social context while population asymmetries are not.

The paper studies social behavior in young chicks, finding that social motivation varies genetically while the ability to recognize individuals is more conserved across breeds.

This study shows that prenatal exposure to valproic acid impairs chicks' preference for dynamic social stimuli, suggesting a link to early ASD symptoms.

This study shows that embryonic exposure to valproic acid disrupts social predispositions in newly-hatched chicks without affecting imprinting learning.

This study shows that hatchling tortoises can recognize and avoid unfamiliar conspecifics without prior social experience.