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Gesine Dreisbach is affiliated with the University of Regensburg in Germany and specializes in Psychology and Neuroscience, with a primary focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Their work spans multiple subfields including Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The main topics covered by Gesine Dreisbach's research include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Creativity in Education and Neuroscience, Cognitive Abilities and Testing, Mental Health Research Topics, Motor Control and Adaptation, and Cognitive Functions and Memory.

Gesine Dreisbach has published several papers on cognition-emotion interactions and cognitive control mechanisms. Notable recent papers include:

  • Using the theory of constructed emotion to inform the study of cognition-emotion interactions (2022, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review)
  • Approach motivation and positive affect (2021, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences)
  • Finding a balance: modulatory effects of positive affect on attentional and cognitive control (2021, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences)
  • Investigating anticipatory processes during sequentially changing reward prospect: An ERP study (2021, Brain and Cognition)
  • How Sequentially Changing Reward Prospect Modulates Meta-control: Increasing Reward Prospect Promotes Cognitive Flexibility (2020, Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience)

Common venues where Gesine Dreisbach frequently publishes include Psychological Research, University of Regensburg Publication Server, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, and Motivation Science.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Gesine Dreisbach include:

  • Kerstin Fröber
  • Vanessa Jurczyk
  • Jonathan Mendl
  • Katrina Sabah
  • Nachshon Meiran

Best Publications

  • How positive affect modulates cognitive control: reduced perseveration at the cost of increased distractibility.

    Gesine Dreisbach;Thomas Goschke

  • Conflicts as aversive signals.

    Gesine Dreisbach;Rico Fischer

  • How positive affect modulates cognitive control: the costs and benefits of reduced maintenance capability.

    Gesine Dreisbach

  • Dopamine and cognitive control: the influence of spontaneous eyeblink rate and dopamine gene polymorphisms on perseveration and distractibility.

    Gesine Dreisbach;Johannes Müller;Thomas Goschke;Alexander Strobel

  • Preparatory processes in the task-switching paradigm: evidence from the use of probability cues.

    Gesine Dreisbach;Hilde Haider;Rainer H. Kluwe

  • Conflicts as Aversive Signals for Control Adaptation

    Gesine Dreisbach;Rico Fischer

  • Conflicts as aversive signals: Conflict priming increases negative judgments for neutral stimuli

    Julia Fritz;Gesine Dreisbach

  • On How to Be Flexible (or Not): Modulation of the Stability-Flexibility Balance:

    Gesine Dreisbach;Kerstin Fröber

  • The differential influences of positive affect, random reward, and performance-contingent reward on cognitive control

    Kerstin Fröber;Gesine Dreisbach

  • Mechanisms of Cognitive Control The Functional Role of Task Rules

    Gesine Dreisbach

  • Preparatory adjustment of cognitive control in the task switching paradigm.

    Gesine Dreisbach;Hilde Haider

  • How task representations guide attention: Further evidence for the shielding function of task sets

    Gesine Dreisbach;Hilde Haider

  • Conflict-Triggered Goal Shielding Response Conflicts Attenuate Background Monitoring for Prospective Memory Cues

    Thomas Goschke;Gesine Dreisbach

  • That's what task sets are for: shielding against irrelevant information.

    Gesine Dreisbach;Hilde Haider

  • The role of affect and reward in the conflict-triggered adjustment of cognitive control.

    Gesine Dreisbach;Rico Fischer

  • Genetic variation of serotonin function and cognitive control

    Alexander Strobel;Alexander Strobel;Gesine Dreisbach;Gesine Dreisbach;Johannes Müller;Thomas Goschke

  • The role of task rules and stimulus-response mappings in the task switching paradigm.

    Gesine Dreisbach;Thomas Goschke;Hilde Haider

  • Backward inhibition as a means of sequential task-set control: evidence for reduction of task competition.

    Mike Hübner;Gesine Dreisbach;Hilde Haider;Rainer H. Kluwe

  • Dopamine and cognitive control: the prospect of monetary gains influences the balance between flexibility and stability in a set-shifting paradigm.

    Johannes Müller;Gesine Dreisbach;Thomas Goschke;Tilman Hensch

  • Keep flexible - Keep switching! The influence of forced task switching on voluntary task switching.

    Kerstin Fröber;Gesine Dreisbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Rico Fischer
Rico Fischer University of Greifswald
Thomas Goschke
Thomas Goschke TU Dresden
Nachshon Meiran
Nachshon Meiran Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Karl-Heinz T. Bäuml
Karl-Heinz T. Bäuml University of Regensburg
Thomas Jacobsen
Thomas Jacobsen Helmut Schmidt University
Peter A. Frensch
Peter A. Frensch Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Andrea Kiesel
Andrea Kiesel University of Freiburg

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