Publications and communications of André Ferrara

Pierre, C., Blairy, S., & Ferrara, A. (14 October 2022). Comment évaluer la Conscience émotionnelle ? [Poster presentation]. 49e Journées scientifiques de l'AEMTC, Mons, Belgium.

Zaros, A., & Ferrara, A. (June 2022). How to Improve and Refine the Elevated Plus Maze for Laboratory Mice [Poster presentation]. FELASA.

Zaros, A., & Ferrara, A. (December 2021). Effets du moment de test et de paramètres méthodologiques sur le comportement et la cognition de la souris de laboratoire [Poster presentation]. Aurélie Zaros, Marseille, France.

Zaros, A., & Ferrara, A. (August 2021). Effects of Testing Moment on Behaviour and Cognition in Mice [Poster presentation]. 11th edition of the World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences.

Zaros, A., & Ferrara, A. (2021). Assessment of executive functions in mice with the Fixed-Ratio schedule of reinforcement [Poster presentation]. Symposium de la Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences.

Serrano Navacerrada, M. E.* , Bartholomé, O.* , Van den Ackerveken, P., Ferrara, A., Rogister, B., Plenevaux, A., & Tirelli, E. (2019). Anxiety-like features and spatial memory problems as a consequence of hippocampal SV2A expression. PLoS ONE, 1-20. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0217882
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Zaros, A., & Ferrara, A. (21 May 2019). Effects of testing moment in the circadian sleep-wake rhythm on learning, memory and behavioural flexibility [Poster presentation]. "Be prepared to PREPARE (guidelines)", Blankenberge, Belgium.

Zaros, A., & Ferrara, A. (May 2019). Time to switch off lights? Effects of testing moment in the circadian sleep-wake rhythm [Poster presentation]. BAPS.

Linden, J., Van de Beek, L., Plumier, J.-C., & Ferrara, A. (18 March 2016). Procedural learning as a measure of functional impairment in a mouse model of ischemic stroke. Behavioural Brain Research, 307, 35-45. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2016.03.032

Tarragon Cros, E., Ferrara, A., Tirelli, E., Bahri, M. A., Plenevaux, A., & Garraux, G. (27 January 2015). Effects of α-synuclein levels on cerebral synaptic function: Validation of a novel PET radioligand for the early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease [Poster presentation]. 2015 GIGA day, Liège, Belgium.

Linden, J., Plumier, J.-C., Fassotte, L., & Ferrara, A. (2015). Focal cerebral ischemia impairs motivation in a progressive FR schedule of reinforcement in mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 279, 82-86. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2014.10.042

Linden, J., Plumier, J.-C., Ferrara, A., & Bastin, M. (Other coll.). (10 November 2013). Transient middle cerebral artery occlusion prevents habit formation in C57Bl/6J mice [Poster presentation]. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, United States - California.

Linden, J., Plumier, J.-C., Ferrara, A., Fassotte, L. (Other coll.), & Tirelli, E. (Other coll.). (14 October 2013). Assessment of behavioral flexibility after middle cerebral artery occlusion in mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 258, 127-137. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2013.10.028

Linden, J., Plumier, J.-C., & Ferrara, A. (15 November 2011). Ipsilateral motor deficit revealed by operant conditioning following right middle cerebral occlusion in mice [Poster presentation]. 40th Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Neuroscience.

Fassotte, L., Linden, J., Ferrara, A., & Plumier, J.-C. (03 November 2011). Evaluation of long-term functional deficits following transient cerebral ischemia in two mouse strains [Poster presentation]. 18th Benelux Congress of Zoology, Evolution- Brain- Cognition, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Brabant, C., Tambour, S., Quertemont, E., Ferrara, A., & Tirelli, E. (2011). Do excitatory and inhibitory conditioning processes underlie psychomotor sensitization to amphetamine? An analysis using simple and multiple regressions. Behavioural Brain Research, 221, 227-236. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2011.02.040

Linden, J., Plumier, J.-C., Ferrara, A., & Fransolet, D. (Other coll.). (November 2010). Progressive fixed-ratio schedule reveals long-lasting motivation deficit after transient cerebral ischemia in mice [Poster presentation]. 40th Annual Meeting of the Society-for-Neuroscience, San Diego, United States - California.

Ferrara, A., El Bejaoui, S., Seyen, S., Tirelli, E., & Plumier, J.-C. (2009). The usefulness of operant conditioning procedures to assess long-lasting deficits following transient focal ischemia in mice. Behavioural Brain Research, 205 (2), 525-34. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2009.08.011

Ylieff, M., Ferrara, A., Fagniart, C., Voncken, A., & Poncin, P. (2008). Optimizing active avoidance conditioning for high-throughput behavioral and cognitive screening in fish. Proceedings of Measuring behaviour. In A.J. Spink et al., Proceedings of Measuring Behaviour.

El Béjaoui, S., Ferrara, A., Seyen, S., & Plumier, J.-C. (2007). Assessment of motor and cognitive deficits in mice after cerebral ischemia and therapeutic benefit of intrastriatal transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells following transient cerebral ischemia [Poster presentation]. 2007 EURON PhD Annual Meeting, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Bouger, P. C., Spowart-Manning, L., Ferrara, A., Schmidt, B. H., & van der Staay, F. J. (August 2004). Effects of acute and repeated administration of a cholinesterase inhibitor on timing behaviour. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 14 (4), 285-294. doi:10.1016/j.euroneuro.2003.08.011

Macar, F., Lejeune, H., Kirsch, M., Ferrara, A., Pouthas, V., Vidal, F., & Maquet, P. (February 2002). Activation of the supplementary motor area and of attentional networks during temporal processing. Experimental Brain Research, 142 (4), 475-485. doi:10.1007/s00221-001-0953-0

Lejeune, H., Huynen, M.-C., & Ferrara, A. (07 December 2000). Temporal differentiation in two strains of small rodents: a wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) and an albino mouse (Mus musculus OF1). Behavioural Processes, 52 (2-3), 155-169. doi:10.1016/S0376-6357(00)00133-9

Comblain, A., Discry, F., & Ferrara, A. (Eds.). (2000). BPS 2000. Annual Meeting of the Belgian Psychological Society. Proceedings. Liège, Belgium: Derouaux.

Ferrara, A. (1999). Dynamique de l'adaptation au temps et modèle de l'horloge interne [Doctoral thesis, ULiège - Université de Liège]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/114218

Ferrara, A. (1999). Apprentissages élémentaires. In J. Rondal, Introduction à la psychologie scientifique (pp. 143-186). Bruxelles, Belgium: Labor.

French, R., & Ferrara, A. (1999). Modelling time perception in rats : evidence for catastrophic interference in animal learning [Paper presentation]. 21st Congress of Cognitive Sciences, Vancouver, Canada.

Tirelli, E., & Ferrara, A. (1999). Conditioned cocaine effects and lack of habituation to the context in one- and two-week-old rat pups : présentée au Joint Meeting of the Behavioural Pharmacology Society and the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society, Boston, USA, September 1-5, 1999. Behavioural Pharmacology.

Tirelli, E., & Ferrara, A. (1999). Conditioned behavioural effects of cocaine in neonatal and infant rats : incompatibility with the habituation hypothesis of conditioned drug effects. Behavioural Pharmacology, 10, 94.

Lejeune, H., Maquet, P., Bonnet, M., Casini, L., Ferrara, A., Macar, F., Pouthas, V., Timsit-Berthier, M., & Vidal, F. (10 October 1997). The basic pattern of activation in motor and sensory temporal tasks: positron emission tomography data. Neuroscience Letters, 235 (1-2), 21-24. doi:10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00698-8

Ferrara, A., Lejeune, H., & Wearden, J. H. (1997). Changing sensitivity to duration in human scalar timing: An experiment, a review, and some possible explanations. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. B, Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 50B, 217-237.

Lejeune, H., Ferrara, A., Simons, F., & Wearden, J. H. (1997). Adjusting to changes in the time of reinforcement: peak-interval transitions in rats. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Animal Behavior Processes, 23 (2), 211-31. doi:10.1037/0097-7403.23.2.211

Lejeune, H., Maquet, P., Kirsch, M., Casini, L., Ferrara, A., Macar, F., Pouthas, V., & Vidal, F. (1997). Transprocedural invariance of the neural networks involved in the estimation of duration : contribution of PET studies (poster abstract). In M. Besson, Neural substrates of cognitive functions : conference in homage to Jean Requin (1938-1996), Marseille, May 15-16, 1997.

Maquet, P., Lejeune, H., Pouthas, V., Kirsch, M., Casini, L., Macar, F., Timsit-Berthier, M., Vidal, F., Ferrara, A., Degueldre, C., Quaglia, L., Delfiore, G., Luxen, A., Woods, R., Mazziotta, J. C., & Comar, D. (April 1996). Brain activation induced by estimation of duration : A PET study. NeuroImage, 3 (2), 119-126. doi:10.1006/nimg.1996.0014

Wearden, J. H., & Ferrara, A. (1996). Stimulus range effects in temporal bisection by humans. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. B, Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 49 (1), 24-44. doi:10.1080/713932615

Maquet, P., Lejeune, H., Pouthas, V., Kirsch, M., Casini, L., Macar, F., Timsit-Berthier, M., Vidal, F., Franck, A., Ferrara, A., & Comar, D. (1995). Frontal activation observed with PET in visual discrimination involving duration or intensity parameters. In Proceedings of the sixth meeting of the European Neurological Society, Tutzing (Munich), RFA, June 17-21.

Wearden, J. H., & Ferrara, A. (1995). Stimulus spacing effects in temporal bisection by humans. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 48B (4), 289-310. doi:10.1080/14640749508401454

Wearden, J. H., & Ferrara, A. (1993). Subjective shortening in human's memory for stimulus duration. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 46B (2), 163-186. doi:10.1080/14640749308401084

Valentine, T., & Ferrara, A. (1991). Typicality in categorization, recognition and identification : evidence from face recognition. British Journal of Psychology, 82, 87-102. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8295.1991.tb02384.x