Publications
Selected publications from the group’s research areas, ordered by publication year.
Papers
| Reference | Topics | URL |
|---|---|---|
| Sessa, P., Schiano Lomoriello, A., Quettier, T., Maffei, A., Costa, S., Nichele, M., & Ferrari, P. F. Facial palsy reveals the sensorimotor contribution to facial-emotion recognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. | Sensorimotor contribution to facial-emotion recognition. | |
| Baldi, J., Disarbois, E., Mendez, A. C., Cappellaro, G., Annicchiarico, G., Bimbi, M., Coudé, G., Duhamel, J.-R., & Ferrari, P. F. (2025). Frontal cortex encodes action goals and social context in freely moving and socially interacting macaques. bioRxiv. | Frontal representations during free social interaction. | DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.21.683128 |
| Nodé-Langlois, O., Rolland, E., Girard-Buttoz, C., Samuni, L., Ferrari, P. F., Wittig, R. M., & Crockford, C. (2025). Social tolerance and role model diversity increase tool use learning opportunities across chimpanzee ontogeny. Communications Biology, 8, 509. | Social opportunities for chimpanzee tool-use learning. | DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-07885-4 |
| Ferrari, P. F. (2024). Social neuroscience: Primate research goes wireless. Current Biology. | Ecological wireless primate social neuroscience. | DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.046 |
| Schiano Lomoriello, A., Caperna, G., Carta, A., De Stefani, E., Ferrari, P. F., & Sessa, P. (2024). Sensitivity to basic emotional expressions and the emotion perception space in the absence of facial mimicry: The case of individuals with congenital facial palsy. Emotion, 24, 602–616. | Emotion perception without facial mimicry. | |
| Sclafani, V., De Pascalis, L., Bozicevic, L., Sepe, A., Ferrari, P. F., & Murray, L. (2023). Similarities and differences in the functional architecture of mother-infant communication in rhesus macaque and British mother-infant dyads. Scientific Reports. | Comparative mother–infant communication. | DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-39623-3 |
| Rayson, H., Szul, M. J., El-Khoueiry, P., Debnath, R., Gautier-Martins, M., Ferrari, P. F., Fox, N., & Bonaiuto, J. J. (2023). Bursting with Potential: How Sensorimotor Beta Bursts Develop from Infancy to Adulthood. Journal of Neuroscience, 43, 8487–8503. | Development of sensorimotor beta bursts. | |
| Massera, A., Rayson, H., Belluardo, M., Ben Hamed, S., & Ferrari, P. F. (2023). Longitudinal effects of early psychosocial deprivation on decision-making in juvenile macaques. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 290, 20221993. | Longitudinal effects of psychosocial deprivation. | |
| Quettier, T., Schiano Lomoriello, A., De Stefani, E., Ferrari, P. F., & Sessa, P. (2023). Testing EEG functional connectivity between sensorimotor and visual regions during face processing in congenital facial palsy. NeuroImage: Clinical, 38, 103399. | EEG functional connectivity during face processing. | |
| Kirchherr, S., Mildiner Moraga, S., Coudé, G., Bimbi, M., Ferrari, P. F., Aarts, E., & Bonaiuto, J. (2023). Bayesian multilevel hidden Markov models identify stable state dynamics in longitudinal recordings from macaque primary motor cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience. | Bayesian state modelling of longitudinal motor-cortex recordings. | DOI: 10.1111/ejn.16065 |
| Sessa, P., Schiano Lomoriello, A., Luria, R., Mento, G., De Stefani, E., & Ferrari, P. F. (2022). Degenerate pathway for processing smile and other emotional expressions in congenital facial palsy. Cerebral Cortex, 32, 5282–5296. | Emotion-expression processing pathways. | |
| De Stefani, E., Barbot, A., Zannoni, C., et al., & Ferrari, P. F. (2022). Post-surgery rehabilitative intervention based on imitation therapy and mouth–hand motor synergies provides better outcomes in smile production in children and adults with long-term facial paralysis. Frontiers in Neurology, 13, 757523. | Rehabilitation after facial reanimation. | |
| Sessa, P., Schiano Lomoriello, A., Duma, G. M., Mento, G., De Stefani, E., & Ferrari, P. F. (2022). Degenerate pathway for processing smile and other emotional expressions in congenital facial palsy: an hdEEG investigation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377, 20210190. | High-density EEG study of congenital facial palsy. | |
| Festante, F., Rayson, H., Paukner, A., Kaburu, S. S. K., Toschi, G., Thorpe, S. G., Buchanan, R. W., Fox, N. A., & Ferrari, P. F. (2021). Oxytocin promotes prosocial behavior and related neural responses in infant macaques at-risk for compromised social development. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. | Oxytocin and early social-development risk. | DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100950 |
| Rayson, H., Massera, A., Belluardo, M., Ben Hamed, S., & Ferrari, P. F. (2021). Early social adversity modulates the relation between attention biases and socioemotional behaviour in juvenile macaques. Scientific Reports, 11, 21704. | Attention and socio-emotional effects of adversity. | |
| Festante, F., Sesso, G., Masi, G., et al., & Ferrari, P. F. (2020). Intranasal oxytocin enhances EEG mu-rhythm suppression during observation of social stimuli in children with autism spectrum disorder. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 117, 104702. | Oxytocin and social EEG responses in autism. | |
| Coudé, G., Toschi, G., Festante, F., Bimbi, M., Bonaiuto, J., & Ferrari, P. F. (2019). Grasping neurons in the ventral premotor cortex of macaques are modulated by social goals. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31, 299–313. | Premotor coding of social goals. | DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01353 |
| De Stefani, E., Nicolini, Y., Belluardo, M., & Ferrari, P. F. (2019). Congenital facial palsy and emotion processing: The case of Moebius syndrome. Genes, Brain and Behavior, 18, e12548. | Emotion processing in congenital facial palsy. | |
| Tramacere, A., Pievani, T., & Ferrari, P. F. (2017). Mirror neurons in the tree of life: Mosaic evolution, plasticity and exaptation of sensorimotor matching responses. Biological Reviews, 92, 1819–1841. | Evolution and plasticity of sensorimotor matching. | |
| Baker, M., Lindell, S. G., Driscoll, C. A., Zhou, Z., Yuan, Q., Schwandt, M. L., et al., & Ferrari, P. F. (2017). Early rearing history influences oxytocin receptor (OXTR) epigenetic regulation in rhesus macaques. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 114, 11769–11774. | Early rearing and OXTR epigenetic regulation. | |
| Dettmer, A. M., Kaburu, S. S. K., Simpson, E. A., Paukner, A., Sclafani, V., Byers, K. L., et al., & Ferrari, P. F. (2016). Neonatal face-to-face interactions shape later social behavior in infant rhesus monkeys. Nature Communications. | Early interaction and later social behaviour. | DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11940 |
| Simpson, E. A., Sclafani, V., Paukner, A., et al., & Ferrari, P. F. (2014). Inhaled oxytocin increases positive social behaviors in newborn macaques. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 111, 6922–6927. | Oxytocin and prosocial behaviour in newborn macaques. | |
| Christov-Moore, L., Simpson, E. A., Coudé, G., Grigaityte, K., Iacoboni, M., & Ferrari, P. F. (2014). Empathy: Gender effects in brain and behavior. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 46, 604–627. | Sex and gender effects in empathy. | |
| Steele, J., Ferrari, P. F., & Fogassi, L. (2012). From action to language: Comparative perspectives on primate tool use, gesture and the evolution of human language. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 367, 4–9. | Comparative tool use, gesture and language evolution. | |
| Ferrari, P. F., Vanderwert, R. E., Paukner, A., Bower, S., Suomi, S. J., & Fox, N. A. (2012). Distinct EEG amplitude suppression to facial gestures as evidence for a mirror mechanism in newborn monkeys. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 1165–1172. | Neonatal EEG evidence for a mirror mechanism. | |
| Coudé, G., Ferrari, P. F., Rodà, F., Maranesi, M., Borelli, E., Veroni, V., Monti, F., Rozzi, S., & Fogassi, L. (2011). Neurons controlling voluntary vocalization in the macaque ventral premotor cortex. PLoS ONE, 6, e26822. | Voluntary vocalization and premotor control. | DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026822 |
| Chersi, F., Ferrari, P. F., & Fogassi, L. (2011). Neuronal chains for actions in the parietal lobe: A computational model. PLoS ONE, 6, e27652. | Computational model of parietal neuronal action chains. | DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027652 |
| Bonini, L., Rozzi, S., Serventi, F. U., Simone, L., Ferrari, P. F., & Fogassi, L. (2011). Ventral premotor and inferior parietal cortices make distinct contributions to action organization and intention understanding. Cerebral Cortex, 20, 1372–1385. | Distinct parietal and premotor roles in action organisation. | |
| Ferrari, P. F., Paukner, A., Ionica, C., & Suomi, S. J. (2009). Reciprocal face-to-face communication between rhesus macaque mothers and their newborn infants. Current Biology, 19, 1768–1772. | Reciprocal early mother–infant communication. | |
| Ferrari, P. F., Visalberghi, E., Paukner, A., Fogassi, L., Ruggiero, A., & Suomi, S. J. (2006). Neonatal imitation in rhesus macaques. PLoS Biology, 4, e302. | Neonatal imitation in macaques. | DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040302 |
| Ferrari, P. F., Rozzi, S., & Fogassi, L. (2005). Mirror neurons responding to observation of actions made with tools in monkey ventral premotor cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 212–226. | Tool-action observation in premotor cortex. | |
| Fogassi, L., Ferrari, P. F., Gesierich, B., Rozzi, S., Chersi, F., & Rizzolatti, G. (2005). Parietal lobe: From action organization to intention understanding. Science, 308, 662–667. | Goal-dependent organisation of action and intention understanding. | |
| Ferrari, P. F., Gallese, V., Rizzolatti, G., & Fogassi, L. (2003). Mirror neurons responding to the observation of ingestive and communicative mouth actions in the monkey ventral premotor cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience, 17, 1703–1714. | Mirror responses to communicative and ingestive actions. |