Anticipatory processes in brain state switching - Evidence from a novel cued-switching task implicating default mode and salience networks. - Justina Sidlauskaite; Jan R. Wiersema; Herbert Roeyers; Ruth M. Krebs; Eliana Vassena; Wim Fias; Marcel Brass; Eric Achten; Edmund Sonuga-Barke (NeuroImage, 2014)

Unsigned value prediction-error modulates the motor system in absence of choice. - Eliana Vassena; Stephanie Cobbaert; Michael Andres; Wim Fias; Tom Verguts (NeuroImage, 2015)

Integrative Modeling of Prefrontal Cortex. - William H. Alexander; Eliana Vassena; James Deraeve; Zachary D. Langford (J. Cogn. Neurosci., 2017)

Predicting Motivation: Computational Models of PFC Can Explain Neural Coding of Motivation and Effort-based Decision-making in Health and Disease. - Eliana Vassena; James Deraeve; William H. Alexander (J. Cogn. Neurosci., 2017)

Prefrontal Cortex in Control: Broadening the Scope to Identify Mechanisms. - William H. Alexander; Joshua W. Brown; Anne G. E. Collins; Benjamin Y. Hayden; Eliana Vassena (J. Cogn. Neurosci., 2018)

Dorsal anterior cingulate-brainstem ensemble as a reinforcement meta-learner. - Massimo Silvetti; Eliana Vassena; Elger L. Abrahamse; Tom Verguts (PLoS Comput. Biol., 2018)

Meta-Reinforcement Learning reconciles surprise, value, and control in the anterior cingulate cortex. - Tim Vriens; Eliana Vassena; Giovanni Pezzulo; Gianluca Baldassarre; Massimo Silvetti (PLoS Comput. Biol., 2025)