Santacá M, Carabba F, Mihindukulasooriya Fernando A, Pitocco E, Battaglini L, Granziol U. Exploring the classical and numerical Delboeuf illusion: the impact of transcranial alternating current stimulation on magnitude processing. PeerJ. 2025. doi: 10.7717/peerj.19064

Santacà M. Some like it “local”: A review of hierarchical processing in non-human animals. Learning & Behavior. 2024 Jun;52(2):143-161. Epub 2023 Nov 6. doi: 10.3758/s13420-023-00605-0

Santacá M, Gatto E, Dadda M, Bruzzone M, Dal Maschio M, Bisazza A. Exploring the Importance of Environmental Complexity for Newly Hatched Zebrafish. Animals. 2024 Mar 28;14(7):1031. doi: 10.3390/ani14071031

Cattelan S, Devigili A, Santacà M, Gasparini C. Female reproductive fluid attracts more and better sperm: implications for within-ejaculate cryptic female choice. Biology Letters. 2023 Jun 21;19(6):20230063. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0063

Pecunioso A, Santacá M, Miletto Petrazzini ME, Agrillo C. Is the Susceptibility to Visual Illusions Related to the Relative Brain Size? Insights from Small-Brained Species. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews . 2020;15:095-105. doi: 10.3819/CCBR.2020.150003

Santacá M, Caja T, Miletto Petrazzini ME, Agrillo C, Bisazza A. Size discrimination in adult zebrafish (Danio rerio): Normative data and individual variation. Scientific Reports. 2020;10(1):1164. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-57813-1

Lucon-Xiccato T, Santacá M, Miletto Petrazzini ME, Agrillo C, Agrillo C, Dadda M. Guppies, Poecilia reticulata, perceive a reversed Delboeuf illusion. Animal Cognition. 2019 Mar 8;22(3):291-303. doi: 10.1007/s10071-019-01237-6

Santacá M, Miletto Petrazzini ME, Agrillo C, Wilkinson A. Can reptiles perceive visual illusions? Delboeuf illusion in red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonaria) and bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps). Journal of Comparative Psychology. 2019;133(4):419-427. doi: 10.1037/com0000176

Santacá M, Busatta M, Lucon-Xiccato T, Bisazza A. Sensory differences mediate species variation in detour task performance. Animal Behaviour. 2019;155:153-162. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.05.022

Santacá M, Busatta M, Savaşçı BB, Lucon-Xiccato T, Bisazza A. The effect of experience and olfactory cue in an inhibitory control task in guppies, Poecilia reticulata. Animal Behaviour. 2019;151:1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.03.003

Santacá M, Regaiolli B, Miletto Petrazzini ME, Spiezio C, Agrillo C. Preliminary study to investigate the Delboeuf illusion in ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta): Methodological challenges. Animal Behavior and Cognition. 2017;4(3):365-377. doi: 10.26451/abc.04.03.13.2017