Wu, H, Vaccaro, AG, Kaplan J. 2025. First-person spoken narratives elicit consistent event structures in the angular gyrus. Cortex, 185, 286-300.

 Leon, GA., Waizman, YH, Cardenas, SI, Arviv, EC, Newsome, P, Vaccaro, AG, Morris, AR, & Saxbe, DE. 2025. Impact of COVID-19 pandemic, disruption in social connection, and loneliness on depressive symptom trajectories across the transition to motherhood. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, in press.

Vaccaro, AG. 2024. Feelings are messy: The feelings we study in affective science should be too. Affective Science, 5, 190-195.

Horner, SB, Lulla, R, Wu, H, Shakthivel, S, Vaccaro, A, Herschel, E, Christov-Moore, L, McDaniel, C, Kaplan, J, & Greening, SG. 2024. Brain activity associated with emotion regulation predicts individual differences in working memory ability. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, in press.

Waizman, YH, Vaccaro, AG, Newsome, P, Aviv, E, Leo, G, Berzenski, S, & Saxbe, DE. 2024. Behavioral and neural evidence for difficulty recognizing masked sad faces. Emotion, in press.

Vaccaro, AG, Wu, H, Iyer, R, Shakthivel, S, Christie, NC, Damasio, A, & Kaplan, JT. 2024. Neural patterns associated with mixed valence feelings differ in consistency and predictability throughout the brain. Cerebral Cortex, 34(4), bhae122.

Vaccaro AG, Lacadie C, Potenza MN. 2024. Intrinsic Connectivity Demonstrates a Shared Role of the Posterior Cingulate for Cue-Induced Craving in Both Gambling and Cocaine Use Disorders, Addictive Behaviors, 155, 108027.

Waizman, YH, Herschel, E, Cardenas, S, Vaccaro A, Aviv, EC, Sellery, P, Goldberg, D, Kaplan, J, Saxbe DE. 2024. Neural Correlates of Inhibitory Control in the Context of Infant Cry and Paternal Adjustment to Fatherhood. Behavioral Brain Research, 465, 114947.

Lulla, R, Christov-Moore L, Vaccaro, A, Reggente, N., Iacaboni, M, Kaplan, JT. 2024. Empathy from Dissimilarity:  Multivariate Pattern Analysis of Neural Activity During Observation of Others' Somatosensory Experiences. Imaging Neuroscience, 2: 1-12.

Christov-Moore L, Reggente, N, Vaccaro, A, Shoeller, F, Plumer, B, Douglas, PK, Iacaboni, Man, K, Damasio, A, Kaplan JT. 2023. Preventing antisocial robots: A pathway to artificial empathy. Science Robotics, 8(80), eabq3658.

Kaplan, J, Vaccaro, A, Henning, M., & Christov-Moore, L. 2023. Moral reframing of messages about mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports, 13, 10140.

Vaccaro, AG, Heydari, P, Christov-Moore, L, Damasio, A, Kaplan, JT. 2022. Perspective-taking is associated with increased discriminability of affective representations in ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, nasc035.

Vaccaro, AG, Scott, B, Gimbel, SI, & Kaplan, J. 2021. Functional brain connectivity during narrative processing relates to transportation and story influence. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15, 351.

Vaccaro, AG, Kaplan, JT, Damasio, A. 2020. Bittersweet: The neuroscience of ambivalent affect. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15(5), 1187-1199.

Vaccaro, AG, Potenza, MN. 2020. Neurobiological foundations of behavioral addictions. In S. Sussman (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Substance Use and Behavioral Addictions. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Vaccaro, AG, Potenza, MN. 2019. Diagnostic and classification considerations regarding gaming disorder: Neurocognitive and neurobiological features. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10. Article 405.

Vaccaro, AG, Fleming, SM. 2018 Thinking about thinking: A coordinate-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies on metacognitive judgements. Brain and Neuroscience Advances, 2.

Vaccaro, AG, Shakthivel, S., Wu, H., Iyer, R., & Kaplan, J. Individual Differences in Feelings of Certainty Surrounding Mixed Emotions. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/6tmj5

Christov-Moore L, Schoeller F, Vaccaro A, Iacaboni, M, Kaplan, J, Reggente, N. Individual differences in aesthetic experience point to the role of body awareness in in political orientation https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/dgkxh