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Social learning and tool use 

Visalberghi, E. (1993). Tool use in a South American monkey species. An overview of characteristics and limits of tool use in Cebus apella. In A. Berthelet & J. Chavaillon (Eds.), Tool use in human and nonhuman primates (pp. 119-131). Oxford: Oxford University Press

Fragaszy, D. & Visalberghi, E. (1989). Social influences on the acquisition and use of tools in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 103, 159-170

Visalberghi, E. & Trinca, L. (1989). Tool use in capuchin monkeys: Distinguishing between performing and understanding. Primates, 30(4), 511-521

Socially-biased learning

Fragaszy D. & Visalberghi, E. (2004). Socially-biased learning in monkeys. Learning & Behaviour, 32, 24-35

Visalberghi, E. & Fragaszy, D. (2002). Do monkeys ape? Ten years after. Cambridge: MIT Press

Fragaszy, D. & Visalberghi, E. (2001). Recognizing a swan: Socially-biased learning. Psychologia, 44, 82-98

Social learning and food choices

Addessi, E., Chiarotti, F., Visalberghi, E. & Anzenberger, G. (2007). Response to novel food and the role of social influences in common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) and Goeldi's monkeys (Callimico goeldii). American Journal of Primatology, 69, 1210-1222

Visalberghi, E. & Addessi, E. (2006). Rationality in capuchin monkey’s feeding behaviour? In M. Nudds & S. Hurley (Eds.), Rational Animals? (pp. 313-328). Oxford: Oxford University Press

Addessi, E. & Visalberghi, E. (2006). How social influences affect food neophobia in captive chimpanzees. A comparative approach. In T. Matsuzawa, T. Tomonaga & M. Tanaka (Eds.), Cognitive development in chimpanzees (pp. 246-264). Tokyo: Springer-Verlag

Addessi, E., Galloway, A., Visalberghi, E. & Birch, L. (2005). Specific social influences on the acceptance of novel foods in 2-5-year-old children. Appetite, 45, 264-271

Agostini, I. & Visalberghi, E. (2005). Social influences on the acquisition of sex-typical foraging patterns by juveniles in a group of wild tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus nigritus). American Journal of Primatology, 69, 335-351

Ferrari, P. F., Maiolini, C., Addessi, E., Fogassi, L. & Visalberghi, E. (2005). The observation and heraing of eating actions activates motor programs related to eating in macaque monkeys. Behavioural Brain Research, 161, 95-101

Galloway, A. T., Addessi, E., Fragaszy, D. & Visalberghi, E. (2005). Social facilitation of eating familiar food in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella): Does it involve behavioral coordination? International Journal of Primatology, 26, 181-189

Addessi, E. & Visalberghi, E. (2004). Social learning: Food. In In M. Bekoff (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (pp. 593-599). Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group

Visalberghi, E., Sabbatini, G., Stammati, M. & Addessi, E. (2003). Preferences towards novel foods in Cebus apella: The role of nutrients and social influences. Physiology & Behavior, 80, 341-349

Visalberghi, E. & Addessi, E. (2003). Food for thought: Social learning about food in feeding capuchin monkeys. In D.M. Fragaszy & S. Perry (Eds.), The biology of traditions (pp. 187-212). Cambridge University Press

Addessi, E. (2002). Il ruolo delle influenze sociali sul comportamento alimentare nel cebo dai cornetti (Cebus apella). Dissertation, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

Addessi, E. and Visalberghi, E. (2001). Social facilitation of eating novel food in tufted capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella): Input provided by group members and responses affected in the observer. Animal Cognition, 4, 297-303

Visalberghi, E. & Addessi, E. (2001). Acceptance of novel foods in Cebus apella: Do specific social facilitation and visual stimulus enhancement play a role? Animal Behaviour, 62, 567-576

Visalberghi, E. & Addessi, E. (2000). Seeing group members eating a familiar food enhances the acceptance of novel foods in capuchins monkeys. Animal Behaviour, 60, 69-76

Visalberghi, E. & Addessi, E. (2000). Response to chances in food palatability in tufted capuchins monkeys (Cebus apella). Animal Behaviour, 59, 231-238

Visalberghi, E., Valente, M. & Fragaszy, D. (1998). Social context and consumption of novel unfamiliar foods by capuchins monkeys (Cebus apella) over repeated encounters. American Journal of Primatology, 45, 367-380

Visalberghi, E. & Fragaszy, D. (1995). The behaviour of capuchins monkeys, Cebus apella, with novel food: The role of social context. Animal Behaviour, 49, 1089-1095

Action repetition

Paukner, A., Suomi, S., Visalberghi, E. & Ferrari, P. F. (2009). Capuchin monkeys display affiliation toward humans who imitate them. Science, 325, 880-883

Paukner, A., Anderson, J., Borelli E., Visalberghi E. & Ferrari P. (2005). Macaques (Macaca nemestrina) recognize when they are being imitated. Biology Letters, 1, 219-222