Publications

Dell'Erba, S., Scheller, M., de Sousa., A. A., Proulx, M. J.  (2024).  Sociocultural pressures, body satisfaction and self-esteem in congenitally-blind, late-blind and sighted men and women.  Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness DOI: 10.1177/0145482x241235167  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0145482X241235167

Amunts, K., . . .   de Sousa, A. A.,  . . .   et al. (2024). The coming decade of digital brain research: A vision for neuroscience at the intersection of technology and computing. Imaging Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1162/imag_a_00137 https://doi.org/10.1162/imag_a_00137

Bannigan, G., de Sousa, A. A., Scheller, M., Finnegan, D. J., & Proulx, M. J. (2024). Potential factors contributing to observed sex differences in Virtual Reality induced sickness. Experimental Brain Research DOI: 10.1007/s00221-023-06760-0 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38170233/ 

de Sousa, A. A., Rigby-Dames, B. A., Graff, E. C., Mohamedelhassan, R., Vassilopoulos, T. & Charvet, C. J. (2023).  Going beyond established model systems of Alzheimer’s disease: companion animals provide novel insights into the neurobiology of aging. Communications Biology 6:655. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05034-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-05034-3

de Sousa, A.A., Beaudet, A., Calvey, T., Bardo, A., Benoit, J., Charvet, C.J., Dehay, C., Gómez-Robles, A, Gunz, P., Heuer., K., van den Heuvel, M.P., Hurst, S., Lauters, P., Reed, D., Salagnon, M., Sherwood, C.C., Ströcken, F., Tawane, M., Todorov, O.S., Toro., R., & Wei, Y. (2023).  From fossils to mind. Communications Biology 6:636. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-04803-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-04803-4

Heuer, K., Traut, N., de Sousa, A. A., Valk, S., Clavel, J., & Toro, R. (forthcoming). Diversity and evolution of cerebellar folding in mammals. eLife DOI: 10.7554/eLife.85907 https://elifesciences.org/articles/85907  

Richardson, M., Jicol, C., Taulo, G., Park, J., Kim, H. K., Proulx, M., & de Sousa, A. A. (2023). Differences in  office-based personal space perception between British and Korean populations.  Frontiers in Psychology 14 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1043088 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1043088

Jicol, C., Taulo, G., Goldie, C., Esenkaya, T., Hynes, R., Paradise, C., Proulx, M.J., & de Sousa, A.A. (2023). The effects of social density, spatial density, noise, and office views on perceived personal space in the virtual workplace. Frontiers in Computer Science 5.  DOI: 10.3389/fcomp.2023.1066881 https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2023.1066881

Scheller, M., de Sousa, A. A., Brotto, L. A., & Little, A. C. (2023). Proximate factors in human mate  preference: The role of sexual and romantic attraction. The Journal of Sex Research DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2023.2176811 https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2023.2176811

Rigby Dames, B. A., Kilili, H., Charvet, C. J., Díaz-Barba, K., Proulx, M. J., de Sousa, A. A., & Urrutia, A. O. (2023). Evolutionary and genomic perspectives of brain ageing and neurodegenerative diseases Progress in Brain Research DOI: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2022.10.004 https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2022.10.004 [request] [link to file]

Pestana, C., de Sousa, A.A., Todorov, O. S., Beaudet, A. & Benoit, J. (2023). Evolutionary history of hominin brain size and phylogenetic comparative methods. Progress in Brain Research. 275:217-232 DOI: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2022.12.014  https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2022.12.014 [request] [link to file]

Todorov, O.S., Weisbecker, V., de Sousa, A.A., Kraatz, B., & Sherratt, E. (2022).  Down a rabbit hole: Burrowing behaviour and larger home ranges are related to larger brains in Leporids. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 29:957-967. DOI: 10.1007/s10914-022-09624-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-022-09624-6

ManyPrimates, . . . Bohn, M., . . .  de Sousa, A.A., …et al.  (2022). The evolution of primate short-term memory. Animal Behavior and Cognition 9(4):428-516. DOI: 10.26451/abc.09.04.06.2022 https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.09.04.06.2022

Karim, A. K. M. R., Proulx, M. J., de Sousa, A. A., & Likova, L. (2022). Do we enjoy what we sense and perceive? A dissociation between aesthetic appreciation and basic perception of environmental objects or events. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. DOI: 10.3758/s13415-022-01004-0 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-022-01004-0

de Sousa, A.A., Todorov, O.S., & Proulx, M.J. (2022). A natural history of vertebrate vision loss: insight from evolution for human visual function. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 134, 104550 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104550 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104550

Salagean, A., Hadnett-Hunter, J.E., Finnegan, D., de Sousa, A.A., & Proulx, M.J. (2022). A Virtual Reality Application of the Rubber Hand Illusion Induced by Ultrasonic Mid-Air Haptic Stimulation. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 19, 1-19. DOI: 10.1145/3487563 https://doi.org/10.1145/3487563

Scheller, M., Matorres, F., Little, T., Tompkins, L., & de Sousa, A. A. (2021). The role of vision in the emergence of mate preferences. Archives of Sexual Behavior. DOI: 10.1007/s10508-020-01901-w https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-020-01901-w

Karim, A. K. M. R., Proulx, M. J., de Sousa, A. A., & Likova, L. T. (2021). Neuroplasticity and crossmodal connectivity in the normal, healthy brain. Psychology and Neuroscience DOI: 10.1037/pne0000258 https://doi.org/10.1037/pne0000258

Gonçalves, D., Rodrigues, A., Richardson, M. L., de Sousa, A. A., Proulx, M. J., & Guerreiro, T. (2021). Exploring asymmetric roles in mixed-ability gaming. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (21 pp.), ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445494  

Laurentino, T.G., Xavier, M., Ronco, F., Domingues, I., Penha, B., Dias, M., de Sousa, A.A., Pina-Martins, F., Carrilho, T., Najafian, K., Pinheiro, C., Rato, D., Balata, D., Ayala, G., Rodrigues, L., Matos, M., Campelo, M., & Botelho, R. (2021) evALLution: making basic evolution concepts accessible to blind people through a multisensory tree of life. Evolution: Education and Outreach, 14:5, 1-14. DOI: 10.1186/s12052-021-00143-1 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12052-021-00143-1

Proulx, M. J., Brown, D. J., Lloyd-Esenkaya, T., Leveson, J. B., Todorov, O. S., Watson, S. H. & de Sousa, A. A. (2020). Visual-to-auditory sensory substitution alters language asymmetry in both sighted novices and experienced visually impaired users, Applied Ergonomics, 85, 103072. DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2020.103072 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2020.103072

Todorov, O. S., Weisbecker, V., Gilissen, E., Zilles, K., & de Sousa, A. A. (2019). Primate hippocampus size and organization are predicted by sociality but not diet. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286(1914), 20191712. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1712 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1712

Karim A. K. M. R., Proulx M. J., de Sousa A. A., Karmaker C., Rahman A., Karim F., & Nigar N. (2017). The right way to kiss: directionality bias in head-turning during kissing. Scientific Reports 7(1):5398. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-04942-9 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-04942-9

Castillo-Morales A., Monzón-Sandoval J., de Sousa A. A., Urrutia A. O., & Gutierrez H. (2016) Neocortex expansion is linked to size variations in gene families with chemotaxis, cell–cell signalling and immune response functions in mammals. Open Biology 6. DOI: 10.1098/rsob.160132 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsob.160132

Proulx, M.J., Todorov, O.S., Taylor Aiken, A., & de Sousa, A.A. (2016) Where am I? Who am I? The Relation Between Spatial Cognition, Social Cognition and Individual Differences in the Built Environment. Frontiers in Psychology, 7. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00064 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00064

Proulx, M. J., Gwinnutt, J., Dell'Erba, S., Levy-Tzedek, S., de Sousa, A. A., & Brown, D. J. (2015). Other ways of seeing: From behavior to neural mechanisms in the online visual control of action with sensory substitution. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, 34(1), 29-44. DOI: 10.3233/rnn-150541 http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/RNN-150541

Marquardt, G., Cross, E. S., de Sousa, A. A., Edelstein, E., Farnè, A., Leszczynski, M., Patterson, M., & Quadflieg, S. (2015). There or not there? A multidisciplinary review and research agenda on the impact of transparent barriers on human perception, action, and social behavior. Frontiers in Psychology, 6. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01381 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01381

de Sousa, A.A. & Proulx, M.J. (2014). What can volumes reveal about human brain evolution? A framework for bridging behavioral, histometric, and volumetric perspectives. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy 8:51. DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2014.00051 https://doi.org/10.3389/fnana.2014.00051

de Sousa, A.A., Sherwood, C.C., Hof, P.R., & Zilles, K. (2013). Lamination of the lateral geniculate nucleus in catarrhine primates Brain, Behavior and Evolution. 81(2):93-108. DOI: 10.1159/000346495 https://doi.org/10.1159/000346495 [request]

Barks, S. K., Bauernfeind, A. L., Bonar, C. J., Cranfield, M. R., de Sousa, A. A., Erwin, J. M., Hopkins, W. D., Lewandowski, A. H., Mudakikwa, A., Phillips, K. A., Raghanti, M. A., Stimpson, C. D., Hof, P. R., Zilles, K. & Sherwood, C. C. (2013) Variable temporo-insular cortex neuroanatomy in primates suggests a bottleneck effect in eastern gorillas. Journal of Comparative Neurolology. DOI: 10.1002/cne.23448 https://doi.org/10.1002/cne.23448 [request]

Bauernfeind, A.L., de Sousa, A.A., Avasthi, T., Dobson, S.D., Raghanti, M.A., Lewandowski, A.H., Zilles, K., Semendeferi, K., Allman, J.M.,Craig, A.D., Hof, P.R., & Sherwood, C.C. (2013) A volumetric comparison of the insular cortex and its subregions in primates Journal of Human Evolution. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.12.003 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.12.003 [request]

de Sousa, A.A., & Cunha, E., (2012) Hominins and the emergence of the modern human brain", Progress in Brain Research. 195, 293-322. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53860-4.00014-3 https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-53860-4.00014-3 [request]

de Sousa, A.A., Sherwood, C.C., Mohlberg, H., Amunts, K., Schleicher, A., MacLeod, C.E., Hof, P.R., Frahm, H., & Zilles, K. (2010) Hominoid visual brain structure volumes and the position of the lunate sulcus", Journal of Human Evolution. 58, 281-292. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.11.011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.11.011 [request] [link to file]

de Sousa, A.A., Sherwood, C.C., Schleicher, A., Hof, P.R., Amunts, K., MacLeod, C.E., & Zilles, K. (2010). Comparative cytoarchitectural analyses of striate and extrastriate areas in hominoids. Cerebral Cortex. 20, 966-981 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp158 https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhp158 [request]

Sherwood, C.C., Raghanti, M.A., Stimpson, C.D., Bonar, C.J., de Sousa, A.A., Preuss, T.M., & Hof, P.R. (2007). Scaling of inhibitory interneurons in areas V1 and V2 of anthropoid primates as revealed by calcium-binding protein immunohistochemistry. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 69, 176-195. DOI: 10.1159/000096986 https://doi.org/10.1159/000096986 [request]

Gonder, M.K., Mortensen, H.M., Reed, F.A., de Sousa, A.A., & Tishkoff, S.A. (2007). Whole mtDNA genome sequence analysis of ancient African lineages. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 24, 757-768 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl209 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msl209 [request]

Book Chapters:

Todorov, O. S. & de Sousa, A. A., (2018). Evolution of the Occipital Lobe. In: Bruner E., Ogihara N., & Tanabe H. C. (eds) Digital Endocasts: From Skulls to Brains. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 259-273. DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-56582-6_17 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56582-6_17 [request]

de Sousa, A.A. & Wood, B.A. (2007). The hominin fossil record and the emergence of the modern human central nervous system. In: Preuss, T.M. & J.H. Kaas (eds), The Evolution of Primate Nervous Systems. Evolution of Nervous Systems, Vol. 4, Academic Press: Oxford. pp 291-336 DOI: 10.1016/B0-12-370878-8/00018-5 https://doi.org/10.1016/B0-12-370878-8/00018-5 [request] [link to file]

Encyclopedia entries:

de Sousa, A. A. & Scheller, M. (2023) Mate Preferences. In T. K. Shackelford, Ed., Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior, Springer Nature: Switzerland. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-08956-5_893-1 https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-031-08956-5_893-1 [request] [link to file]

Haas, J., Hass, R., Spocter, M.A., & de Sousa, A.A. (2020) Human Visual Neurobiology. In T. K. Shackelford, & V.A. Weekes-Shackelford (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, Springer Nature: Switzerland. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2768-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2768-1 [request] [link to file]

Book Review:

de Sousa, A.A. (2011). BOOK REVIEW: about Müller, S. & F. Schrenk. (2008). The Neanderthals – London & New York, Routledge. Palarch’s Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology [request]

Edited Volume:

Calvey, T., de Sousa, A. A. & Beaudet, A., Eds. (2023). From Fossils to Mind. Progress in Brain Research. ISBN: 9780323991070  https://www.elsevier.com/books/from-fossils-to-mind/calvey/978-0-323-99107-0

PhD Dissertation:

de Sousa, A.A. (2008). Hominoid brain organization: Histometric and morphometric comparisons of visual brain structures. The George Washington University, United States -- District of Columbia. [request]