OKSANA ITKES (PhD)

Oksana is a Post-Doctoral researcher in the Eitam Lab.

She finished her PhD at the University of Haifa, combining both cognition and affect under the supervision of Dr. Assaf Kron and Prof. Rutie Kimchi. Currently her work revolves around two main areas: affect and mental imagery. especially interested in the role of conceptual knowledge in affective learning and the mechanism that underlies visual mental imagery.

PUBLICATIONS

    • Itkes, O., & Kron, A. (2019). Affective and semantic representations of valence: a conceptual framework (Emotion Review, in press).

    • Itkes, O., Eviatar, Z., & Kron, A. (2019). Semantic and affective manifestations of ambi (valence). Cognition and Emotion, 1-14.‏

    • Hamzani, O#., Mazar, T#., Itkes, O#., Petranker, R., & Kron, A. (2018). Semantic and affective representations of valence: prediction of autonomic and facial responses from feelings-focused and knowledge-focused self-reports (accepted in Emotion). # - Equal contribution

    • Itkes, O., Kimchi, R., Haj-Ali, H., Shapiro, A., & Kron, A. (2017). Dissociating Affective and Semantic Valence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.‏

    • Itkes, O., & Mashal, N. (2015). Processing negative valence of word pairs that include a positive word. Cognition and Emotion, (ahead-of-print), 1-8.‏

    • Mashal, N., & Itkes, O. (2014). The effects of emotional valence on hemispheric processing of metaphoric word pairs. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, 19(5), 511-521.