Giovanna C. Del Sordo

Peer-Reviewed Publications

As researcher: 

Del Sordo, G.C., Tardivo, F., & Papesh, M.H. (under review). The Complex Card Matching Task (CCMT): A PsychoPy-based task for studying the exploration-exploitation trade-off. Under review at: Journal of Open Research Software.

Papesh, M.H. & Del Sordo, G.C. (under review). Only spontaneous eye movements to nothing enhance source memory. Under review at: Brain Sciences.

Papesh, M.H., Hout, M.C., Del Sordo, G.C., White, B., & Mathis, A. (under review). Eye-tracking as a lens into expertise development in simulated medical image perception. Under review at: Proceedings of the symposium on eye tracking research and applications (ETRA).

Balvert, S.C.E.*, Del Sordo, G.C.*, & Milders, M.V. (2024). Dyadic interventions for community-dwelling people with dementia and their caregivers: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Aging Research Reviews, 94, 102258.

Del Sordo, G.C., & Simon, D.A. (2021). Pain-dependent learning in healthy volunteers. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(9), 1571-1578. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211001057

As lead statistician:

Dambel, L., Del Sordo, G.C., Saidi, O., & Duché, P. (in press). Exploring the effects of lifestyle disruptions on physical fitness in children and adolescents: A systematic scoping review. In pres at: Sports Medicine.

Sudlow, A., Pommerell, F., Del Sordo, G.C., Boyas, S., Rahmani, A., Robichon, J., Samozino, P., Duché, P., & Peyrot, N. (under review). Effects of dribbling constraints on sprint acceleration performance according to maturity status in handball players. Under review at: European Journal of Applied Physiology.

Souabni, M., Del Sordo, G.C., Maso, M., Peyrel, P., Maviel, C., Vercruyssen, F., Duché, P., & Saidi, O. (2024). Energy Balance, and Dietary Intake in Young Rugby Players During a Pre-Season micro-cycle: A cluster analysis. Nutrients, 16(17), 2863. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16172863

Madson, L., Hout, M.C., & Del Sordo, G.C. (2024). Students in team-based learning classes report greater belongingness. Teaching of Psychology, 1-11. 10.1177/00986283241243089

Sudlow, A., Galantine, P., Del Sordo, G., Raymond, J-J., Dalleau, G., Peyrot, N., & Duché, P. (2024). Influence of growth, maturation, and sex on maximal power, force, and velocity during over-ground sprinting. Journal of Strength and  Conditioning Research, 38(3), 491-500.

Saidi, O., Souabni, M., Del Sordo, G.C., Maviel, C., Peyrel, P., Maso, F., Vercruyssen, F., & Duché, P. (2024). Association between low energy availability (lea) and impaired sleep quality in young rugby players. Nutrients, 16, 609. https:// doi.org/10.3390/nu16050609

Lehmann, L. Giacomoni, M., Del Sordo, G., Raymond, J-J., Duché, P., & Margaritis, I. (2023). Energy and macronutrient intakes in young athletes : A systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Sports Medicine, 45(1), 3-16. 10.1055/a-2108-5691

Saidi, O., Chatain, C., Del Sordo, G., Demaria, R., Lequin, L., Rochette, L., Larribaut, J., Gruet, M., & Duché, P. (2023). The effect of different modalities of an acute energy deficit on sleep and next morning appetitive and compensatory behavior in healthy  young adults: The EDIES protocol. Nutrients, 15(8), 1962. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15081962

Saidi, O., Peyrel, P., Del Sordo, G., Brendan, G., Maso, F., Doré, E., & Duché, P. (2023). Is it wiser to train in the afternoon or the early evening to sleep better? the role of chronotype in young adolescent athletes. Sleep, zsad099.  doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsad099

Saidi, O., Rochette, E., Del Sordo, G., Peyrel, P., Salles, J., Doré, E., Merlin, E., Walrand, S., & Duché, P. (2022). Isocaloric diets with different protein-carbohydrate ratios: The effect on sleep, melatonin secretion and subsequent nutritional response in healthy young men. Nutrients, 14, 5299. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14245299

Saidi, O., Del Sordo, G.C., Peyrel, P., Sudlow, A., Maso, F., Walrand, S., Duché, P. (2022). Night-to-night sleep variability in adolescent rugby players compared to non-athlete matched controls. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 18(2), 453-461. doi: 10.1177/17479541221084680

Lehmann, L., Saidi, O., Giacomoni, M., Del Sordo, G., Maso, F., Margaritis, I., & Duché, P. (2022). A delayed evening meal enhances sleep quality in young rugby players. International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, 1(aop), 1-8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1123/ijsnem.2022-0014

Saidi, O., Rochette, E., Del Sordo, G., Doré, É., Merlin, É., Walrand, S., & Duché, P. (2021). Eucaloric balanced diet improved objective sleep in adolescents with obesity. Nutrients, 13(10), 3550. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13103550

Edited Volume Chapters

Del Sordo, G.C., Papesh, M.H., & Hout, M. (accepted).  Eye-tracking and pupillometry. In E. Chrysikou (Ed.) Cognitive Neuroscience Methods. Springer Nature.

Other Scientific Writing

Del Sordo, G.C., & Papesh, M.H. (2024). Ouch! What is pain and why do we need it? Frontiers for Young Minds, 12(1221084). doi: 10.3389/frym.2023.1221084

Del Sordo, G.C., Moyer, E., Goode, D.A., & Hout, M. (2020). This will only hurt for a minute: How our brains plan for pain. Frontiers for Young Minds, 8(539649). doi: 10.3389/frym.2020.539649  

Del Sordo, G.C. (2020). The analgesic effect of mirror visual feedback and non-painful pressure on experimentally induced pain. (Unpublished master’s thesis). New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, USA.

Professional Presentations

Galantine, P., Hays, A., Del Sordo, G.C., Sudlow, A., Maso, F., Bertin, D., & Duché, P. (2025, July 1-4). Physical activity level more than maturity status is a key parameter to improving fatigability and muscular fitness for health in preadolescents and adolescents. [Talk presentation]. European College of Sport Science (ECSS) Congress, Rimini, Italy.

Del Sordo, G.C., & Papesh, M.H. (2024, November 21-14). Validating a new measure of vigilant attention. [Poster presentation]. Psychonomic Society, New York, NY, USA.

Del Sordo, G.C., & Papesh, M.H. (2024, November 21). Examining Contextual Cues in Prospective Memory using Pupillometry. [Poster presentation]. Object Perception, Attention & Memory (OPAM), New York, NY, USA.

Mathis, A.P., Del Sordo, G.C., Hout, M.C., Papesh, M.H., White, B., & Penn, R. A Closer Look at perceptual training during an anomaly search task: Target recognition and error distributions. Object Perception, Attention & Memory (OPAM), New York, NY, USA.

Balvert, S., Del Sordo, G.C., & Milders, M. (2024, October 8-10). The efficacy of dyadic interventions for community-dwelling people with dementia and their caregivers: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [Poster presentation]. 34th Alzheimer Europe Conference, Geneva, Switzerland.

Del Sordo, G.C., & Papesh, M.H. (2024, August 24-29). Understanding behavioral regulation: How the eyes reveal exploration-exploitation dynamics. [Talk presentation]. European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM), Maynooth University, Co. Kildare, Ireland.

Papesh, M.H., Del Sordo, G.C., & Rowley, M. (2024, August 24-29). Using context to improve prospective memory: a pupillometry study. [Talk presentation]. European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM), Maynooth University, Co. Kildare, Ireland.

Hout, M. C., Papesh, M. H., Penn, R., Mathis, A., Del Sordo, G.C., & White, B. (2024, July 30). Developing use-inspired basic research paradigms (and stimuli) for the study of medical image perception. [Talk presentation]. 2024 NM-INBRE Symposium, Las Cruces, NM,  USA.

Del Sordo, G.C., Tardivo, F., & Papesh, M.H. (2023, November 16-19). Exploration vs. exploitation in a novel complex card sorting task: Evidence from pupillometry. [Poster presentation]. Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Del Sordo, G.C., & Papesh, M.H. (2023, April 13-15). Individual differences in attentional resource allocation and cognitive reserve: Evidence from pupillometry. [Poster presentation]. Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Albuquerque, NM, USA.

Del Sordo, G.C., Cholley-Gomez, M., & Duché, P. (2021, October 26-29). Psychological state and living conditions during and after the COVID-19 lockdown: A longitudinal study on active vs non-active French adults. [Poster presentation]. Association des Chercheurs en Activité Physique et Sportives (ACAPS), Montpellier, France.

Del Sordo, G.C., & Simon, D.A. (2020, April 16-18). Pain-dependent learning in healthy volunteers. [Poster presentation]. Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Denver, CO, USA. (Conference canceled)

Del Sordo, G.C., & Simon, D.A. (2020, April 16-18). The analgesic effects of mirror visual feedback and non-painful pressure on experimentally induced pain. [Poster presentation]. Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Denver, CO, USA. (Conference canceled)

Del Sordo, G.C., & White, L.H (2018, April 12-14). The effect of the timing and duration of experimentally induced pain and personality on visual memory. [Poster presentation]. Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Denver, CO, USA.

Strosser, G.L., Del Sordo, G.C., Ashworth, A.J., & Aarre, S.D. (2018, April 12-14). Disgust sensitivity better predicts political ideology than disgust reappraisal. [Poster presentation]. Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Denver, CO, USA.

Strosser, G.L., Del Sordo, G.C., & Aarre, S.D. (2017, April 6-8). Critically evaluating the links between disgust, morality, and political ideology. [Poster presentation]. Rocky Mountain Psychological Association (RMPA), Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

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