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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 through collaboration with other labs.

Recent Publications

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+Farkas, A.H., +Jia, H., Gardy, S.M., +Gehr, M.C., & Sabatinelli, D. (in press). Open communication can lead to equivalent EEG data quality for Black women: An inter-individual difference study on emotional scene and face perception. Psychophysiology.

+Jia, H, +Farkas, A.H., & Sabatinelli, D. (2026). People, places, and things: The impact of scene animacy on emotional modulation of the early posterior negativity. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-026-01446-w     

+Farkas, A.H., +Gehr, M.C., +Jia, H. & Sabatinelli, D. (2025). Measuring realistic emotional perception with EEG: A comparison of multimodal videos and naturalistic scenes. Psychophysiology, https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14765. 

Fuentes-Sánchez, N., Espino-Payá, A., Prantner, S., Sabatinelli, D., Pastor, M.C., & Junghöfer, M. (2024). On joy and sorrow: Neuroimaging meta analyses of music induced emotion. Imaging Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00425

Sabatinelli, D., +Farkas, A. H., & +Gehr, M. C. (2024). Moving toward reality: Electrocortical reactivity to naturalistic multimodal emotional videos. Psychophysiology, https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14526

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, https://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, https://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, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1102213

+Farkas, A.H., +Wanger, T.J., & Sabatinelli, D. (2021). Do rare emotional scenes enhance LPP modulation? Biological Psychology, https://doi.org/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, https://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, https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbab018.

+ Graduate students under Dr. Sabatinelli's direct supervision.