Davide Gheza

Davide Gheza

Cognitive neuroscientist. Cognitive control, attention and effort.

Publications

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Preprints

Reactive suppression of distractor representations resolves multidimensional interference

Published in bioRxiv, 2025

When several distractors compete at once, attention to each is adjusted independently, depending on whether it helped or hurt you in the past. EEG shows when: the brain first registers every distractor, then quickly turns each one up or down according to its own track record.

Recommended citation: Gheza, D., Freund, M. C., Zalabak, T. R., & Kool, W. (2025). "Reactive suppression of distractor representations resolves multidimensional interference." bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.16.688701
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Journal Articles

Distractor-specific control adaptation in multidimensional environments

Published in Nature Human Behaviour, 2025

When several things compete for our attention, the brain can keep track of them independently. In our task, the brain keeps a separate record of how much each one has interfered in the past (i.e., how much each bothered you), and uses that to decide how much attention to deploy against it next time.

Recommended citation: Gheza, D., & Kool, W. (2025). "Distractor-specific control adaptation in multidimensional environments." Nature Human Behaviour, 9, 534–553.
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Abnormal approach-related motivation but spared reinforcement learning in MDD: Evidence from fronto-midline theta oscillations and frontal alpha asymmetry

Published in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019

People with depression could still learn from feedback, but their brains showed signs of lower drive to approach it.

Recommended citation: Gheza, D., Bakic, J., Baeken, C., De Raedt, R., & Pourtois, G. (2019). "Abnormal approach-related motivation but spared reinforcement learning in MDD: Evidence from fronto-midline theta oscillations and frontal alpha asymmetry." Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience.
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Integration of reward with cost anticipation during performance monitoring revealed by ERPs and EEG spectral perturbations

Published in NeuroImage, 2018

Winning is nice. Winning and also dodging extra work is nicer. It was a lot of work to show this via analyses of brain’s reward signals, but it still felt nice.

Recommended citation: Gheza, D., De Raedt, R., Baeken, C., & Pourtois, G. (2018). "Integration of reward with cost anticipation during performance monitoring revealed by ERPs and EEG spectral perturbations." NeuroImage, 173, 153–164.
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Dissociable effects of reward and expectancy during evaluative feedback processing revealed by topographic ERP mapping analysis

Published in International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2018

Good news and surprising news leave different fingerprints on the EEG.

Recommended citation: Gheza, D., Paul, K., & Pourtois, G. (2018). "Dissociable effects of reward and expectancy during evaluative feedback processing revealed by topographic ERP mapping analysis." International Journal of Psychophysiology.
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Conference Papers