Irene Cogliati Dezza is a postdoctoral researcher founded by the FWO-postdoctoral fellowship. She is also associate editor at In-Mind Italy and co-founder of BeBrain .
She holds a BA in Biology, a MA in Neurobiology, a university certificate in data science and a PhD in computational cognitive neuroscience. Her research focuses on understanding the mechanisms underlying information-seeking. She conducts her research in adults and children in both healthy and clinical populations.
Her approach combines state-of-the-art methods from diverse disciplines including psychology, neuroscience and computer science.
Contact:
irene.cogliatidezza(at)gmail.com (email)
https://sites.google.com/site/irenecogliatidezza
Publications
Edited Book
Cogliati Dezza, I., Schulz, E., Wu, C. (2022). The drive for knowledge: the science of human information-seeking. Cambridge University Press. Buy a copy
Book Chapters
Nieddu, G. & Cogliati Dezza, I. (acceppted). Active imagination as a search for internal information. In Tozzi, C. Active Imagination. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group Publisher.
Charpentier, C.*, Cogliati Dezza, I.* (2022) Information-seeking in the brain. In Cogliati Dezza, I. , Schulz, E., Wu, C. (Eds.), The drive for knowledge: the science of human information-seeking. Cambridge University Press. PsyArXiv preprint *equal contribution
Peer-reviewed
- Cogliati Dezza, I. (submitted). Taking into account the complexity underlying motivation to reveal its true mechanisms.
- Cogliati Dezza, I., Molinaro, G., Verguts, T. (under review). When cognition overshadows affect maladaptive information-seeking arises.
- Cogliati Dezza, I., Molinaro, G., Verguts, T. (2023). A reinforcement learning framework for information-seeking and information-avoidance. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
- Molinaro, G., Cogliati Dezza, I., Bühler, S. K., Moutsiana, C. & Sharot, T. (accepted). Multifaced information-seeking motives in children. Nature Communications
- Cogliati Dezza, I., Cleeremans, A., Alexander, W. (2022). Independent and Interacting Value System for Reward and Information in the Human Brain. eLife.11:e66358. pdf data
- Cogliati Dezza, I., Maher, C., Sharot, T. (2022). People adaptively use information to improve their internal states and external outcomes. Cognition.pdf data
- Charpentier, C.*, Cogliati Dezza, I.*, Vellani, V.*, Globig, L., Gädeke, M., Sharot, T. (2022). Anxiety selectively increases information-seeking in response to large changes in the environment. Scientific Reports. pdf *equal contribution
- Cogliati Dezza, I., Noel, X., Cleeremans, A., Yu, A. (2021). Distinct motivations to seek out information in healthy individuals and problem gamblers. Transl Psychiatry11, 408. doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01523-3 pdf
- Cogliati Dezza, I., Cleeremans, A., Alexander, W. (2019). Should We Control? The Interplay Between Cognitive Control and Information Integration in the Resolution of the Exploration-Exploitation Dilemma. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. pdf data
- Cogliati Dezza, I., Noel, X., Cleeremans, A., Yu, A. (2018). The Exploration-Exploitation Dilemma as a Tool for Studying Addiction. Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience 2018. Archived at https://ccneuro.org/2018/proceedings/1080.pdf Video
- Cogliati Dezza, I., Yu, A. J., Cleeremans, A., Alexander, W. (2017). Learning the value of information and reward over time when solving exploration-exploitation problems. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 16919. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-17237-w. pdf data
- Cogliati Dezza, I., Zito, G., Tomasevic, L., Filippi, M. M., Ghazaryan, A., Porcaro, C., . . .Tecchio, F. (2015). Functional and structural balances of homologous sensorimotor regions in multiple sclerosis fatigue. Journal of Neurology, 262(3), 614-622. doi:10.1007/s00415-014-7590-6.
- Borgi, M., Cogliati Dezza, I., Brelsford, V., Meints, K., & Cirulli, F. (2014). Baby schema in human and animal faces induces cuteness perception and gaze allocation in children. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 411. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00411.