A rocky ridge beneath a dark sky in Big Bend National Park
Big Bend National Park · photographed by Danika

Research

Publications & presentations.

Selected contributions across behavioral science, psychophysiology, nutrition, and eating behavior research.

A research throughline

Careful measurement, clear methods, and findings communicated for the audience in front of them.

Peer-reviewed publications

Satiety does not affect neuroaffective electrophysiological responses to food-related or emotional visual cues

Deweese, M.M., Versace, F., Kypriotakis, G., Dirba, D., Daniel, C.R., & Schembre, S.M. (2021). Behavioral Neuroscience, 135(4), 571–580.

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Dietary inflammatory potential in relation to the gut microbiome: results from a cross-sectional study

Zheng, J., Hoffman, K.L., Chen, J.-S., Shivappa, N., Sood, A., Browman, G.J., Dirba, D.D., Hanash, S., Wei, P., Hebert, J.R., Petrosino, J.F., Schembre, S.M., & Daniel, C.R. (2020). British Journal of Nutrition, 124(9), 931–942.

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Dispensing apparatus for use in a cued food delivery task

Deweese, M.M., Claiborne, K.N., Ng, J., Dirba, D.D., Stewart, H.L., Schembre, S.M., & Versace, F. (2015). MethodsX.

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Published abstract

Individual differences in incentive salience and eating behavior

Versace, F., Deweese, M.M., Engelmann, J., Claiborne, K.N., Ng, J., Stewart, H.L., Dirba, D.D., & Schembre, S. (2016). Psychophysiology, 53, S56.

Poster presentations

Satiety, brain responses, and palatable food cues

Presented at the 2018 State of the Science Cancer Survivorship Research Symposium, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.

Incentive salience and cue-induced eating

Presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Minneapolis.

Professional acknowledgements

The reality of “food porn”

Larger brain responses to food-related cues than to erotic images predict cue-induced eating.

Heterogeneity in brain reactivity

Brain reactivity to pleasant and food cues: evidence of sign-tracking in humans.