Associate Professor Behavioral and Brain Sciences Program Neuroscience Program I will review applications for a new graduate student in 2024. Candidates from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. Education Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville Research Interests Using naturalistic perception as a model, we are interested in defining the brain mechanisms involved in the discrimination of emotional stimuli, and specifically how the recruited cortical and subcortical structures are orchestrated in real time. In addition to basic science, a secondary goal of the lab is to understand how these dynamic mechanisms contribute to disorders of emotion. Recent Publications For a full list, Google Scholar Profile Trotti, R.L., Parker, D.A., Sabatinelli, D., Keshavan, M.S., Keedy, S.K., Gershon, E.S., Pearlson., G.D., Hill, S.K., Tamminga, C.A., McDowell, J.E., & Clementz, B.A. (2023). Emotional Scene Processing in Biotypes of Psychosis: An ERP Study. Psychiatry Research, doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2023.115227. +Farkas, A.H., & Sabatinelli, D. (2023). Emotional perception: Divergence of early and late ERP modulation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01984. Sabatinelli, D., Winker, C., +Farkas, A. H., Rehbein, M.A., & Junghöfer, M.J. (2023). A 5-minute paradigm to evoke robust emotional reactivity in neuroimaging studies. Frontiers in Neuroscience, doi: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1102213. +Farkas, A.H., +Wanger, T.J., & Sabatinelli, D. (2021). Do rare emotional scenes enhance LPP modulation? Biological Psychology, doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108204. +Farkas, A.H., Trotti, R.L., Edge, E.A., Huang, L.Y., Kasowski, A., Thomas, O.F., Chlan, E., Granros, M.P., Patel, K.K., & Sabatinelli, D. (2021) Humor and emotion: Quantitative meta analyses of functional neuroimaging studies. Cortex, doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.02.023. Trotti, R.L., Abdelmageed, S., Parker, D.A., Sabatinelli, D., Tamminga, C.A., Gershon, E.S., Keedy, S.K., Keshavan, M.S., Pearlson, G.D., Sweeney, J.A., McDowell, J.E., & Clementz, B.A (2021). Neural processing of repeated emotional scenes in schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder. Schizophrenia Bulletin, doi:10.1093/schbul/sbab018. Winker, C., Rehbein, M.A., Sabatinelli, D., & Junghöfer, M. (2020). Repeated noninvasive stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex reveals cumulative amplification of pleasant compared to unpleasant scene processing: a single subject pilot study. PLoS One. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0222057. Trotti, R.L., Parker, D.A., Sabatinelli, D., Tamminga, C.A., Gershon, E.S., Keedy, S.K., Keshavan, M.S., Pearlson, G.D., Sweeney, J.A., McDowell, J.E., Clementz, B.A. (2020). Electrophysiological correlates of emotional scene processing in bipolar disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2019.10.005 +Farkas, A.H., Oliver, K.I., & Sabatinelli, D. (2020). Emotional and feature-based modulation of the early posterior negativity. Psychophysiology. doi: 10.1111/psyp.13484 +Frank. D.W., Costa, V. D., Averbeck, B.B., & Sabatinelli, D. (2019). Directional interconnectivity of the human amygdala, fusiform gyrus, and orbitofrontal cortex in emotional scene perception. Journal of Neurophysiology. doi: 10.1152/jn.00780.2018 Winker, C., Rehbein, M.A., Sabatinelli, D., Dohn, M., Maitzen, J., Roesmann, Wolters, C.H., Arolt, V., & Junghöfer, M. (2019). Noninvasive stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex indicates valence ambiguity in sad compared to happy and fearful face processing. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00083. Sabatinelli, D. & +Frank, D.W. (2019). Assessing the primacy of human amygdala-inferotemporal emotional scene discrimination with rapid whole-brain fMRI. Neuroscience. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.03.001. +Frank, D.W. & Sabatinelli, D. (2019). Hemodynamic and electrocortical reactivity to specific scene contents in emotional perception. Psychophysiology. doi: 10.1111/psyp.13340 Winker, C., Rehbein, M.A., Sabatinelli, D., Dohn, M. Maitzen, J., Wolters, C. H., Arolt, V. & Junghofer, M. (2018). Noninvasive stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex modulates emotional face processing. NeuroImage. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.03.067 Junghöfer, M., Winker, C., Rehbein, M.A., & Sabatinelli, D. (2017). Noninvasive stimulation of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex enhances pleasant scene processing. Cerebral Cortex. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhx073 +Frank, D.W., & Sabatinelli, D. (2017). Primate visual perception: Motivated attention in naturalistic scenes. Frontiers in Psychology, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00226 +Filkowski, M.M., Olsen, R.M., Duda, B., +Wanger, T.J., & Sabatinelli, D. (2017). Sex differences in emotional perception: Meta analysis of divergent activation. NeuroImage, 147, 925-933. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.12.016 + Graduate students under Dr. Sabatinelli's direct supervision.
