A Computational Model of the Amygdala Nuclei's Role in Second Order Conditioning. - Francesco Mannella; Stefano Zappacosta; Marco Mirolli; Gianluca Baldassarre (SAB, 2008)

Modelling Coordination of Learning Systems: A Reservoir Systems Approach to Dopamine Modulated Pavlovian Conditioning. - Robert Lowe; Francesco Mannella; Tom Ziemke; Gianluca Baldassarre (ECAL (1), 2009)

Navigation via Pavlovian conditioning: a robotic bio-constrained model of autoshaping in rats. - Francesco Mannella; Ansgar Koene; Gianluca Baldassarre (EpiRob, 2009)

The roles of the amygdala in the affective regulation of body, brain, and behaviour. - Marco Mirolli; Francesco Mannella; Gianluca Baldassarre (Connect. Sci., 2010)

The Hierarchical Organisation of Cortical and Basal-Ganglia Systems: A Computationally-Informed Review and Integrated Hypothesis. - Gianluca Baldassarre; Daniele Caligiore; Francesco Mannella (Computational and Robotic Models of the Hierarchical Organization of Behavior, 2013)

The "Mechatronic Board": A Tool to Study Intrinsic Motivations in Humans, Monkeys, and Humanoid Robots. - Fabrizio Taffoni; Domenico Formica; Giuseppina Schiavone; Maria Scorcia; Alessandra Tomassetti; Eugenia Polizzi di Sorrentino; Gloria Sabbatini; Valentina Truppa; Francesco Mannella; Vincenzo Fiore; Marco Mirolli; Gianluca Baldassarre; et al. (Intrinsically Motivated Learning in Natural and Artificial Systems, 2013)

Selection of cortical dynamics for motor behaviour by the basal ganglia. - Francesco Mannella; Gianluca Baldassarre (Biol. Cybern., 2015)

Dysfunctions of the basal ganglia-cerebellar-thalamo-cortical system produce motor tics in Tourette syndrome. - Daniele Caligiore; Francesco Mannella; Michael A. Arbib; Gianluca Baldassarre (PLoS Comput. Biol., 2017)

Action-outcome contingencies as the engine of open-ended learning: computational models and developmental experiments. - Gianluca Baldassarre; Francesco Mannella; Vieri Giuliano Santucci; Eszter Somogyi; Lisa Jacquey; Mollie Hamilton; J. Kevin O'Regan (ICDL-EPIROB, 2018)

Know Your Body Through Intrinsic Goals. - Francesco Mannella; Vieri G. Santucci; Eszter Somogyi; Lisa Jacquey; J. Kevin O'Regan; Gianluca Baldassarre (Frontiers Neurorobotics, 2018)

General differential Hebbian learning: Capturing temporal relations between events in neural networks and the brain. - Stefano Zappacosta; Francesco Mannella; Marco Mirolli; Gianluca Baldassarre (PLoS Comput. Biol., 2018)

An Intrinsically Motivated Planning Architecture for Curiosity-driven Robots. - Angelo Oddi; Riccardo Rasconi; Vieri Giuliano Santucci; Gabriele Sartor; Emilio Cartoni; Francesco Mannella; Gianluca Baldassarre (AIRO@AI*IA, 2019)

REAL-2019: Robot open-Ended Autonomous Learning competition. - Emilio Cartoni; Francesco Mannella; Vieri Giuliano Santucci; Jochen Triesch; Elmar Rueckert; Gianluca Baldassarre (NeurIPS (Competition and Demos), 2019)

Integrating Open-Ended Learning in the Sense-Plan-Act Robot Control Paradigm. - Angelo Oddi; Riccardo Rasconi; Vieri Giuliano Santucci; Gabriele Sartor; Emilio Cartoni; Francesco Mannella; Gianluca Baldassarre (ECAI, 2020)

Supervised Topological Maps. - Francesco Mannella (CoRR, 2020)

Active inference through whiskers. - Francesco Mannella; Federico Maggiore; Manuel Baltieri; Giovanni Pezzulo (Neural Networks, 2021)

Modeling Motor Control in Continuous Time Active Inference: A Survey. - Matteo Priorelli; Federico Maggiore; Antonella Maselli; Francesco Donnarumma; Domenico Maisto; Francesco Mannella; Ivilin Peev Stoianov; Giovanni Pezzulo (IEEE Trans. Cogn. Dev. Syst., 2024)

Learning to segment self-generated from externally caused optic flow through sensorimotor mismatch circuits. - Matthias Brucklacher; Giovanni Pezzulo; Francesco Mannella; Gaspare Galati 002; Cyriel M. A. Pennartz (Neural Networks, 2025)